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My good friend from uni is in the group, and thought about trying to lateral in myself. Comp is essentially same as banking $110k/125k first and second year base; have heard they are on Jan bonus cycle so stubbed bonus of ~$30k for first years; ~$100k bonus for 2nd years. Hours seem to be some where around ~70 hours / week. Exits, this year and last, are good, several UMM/MF exits but also a good amount of analysts choosing to stay on.

 

Ignore this thread. This is coming from someone who actually turned down AIMS in SLC. The pay is nowhere close to IBD with 0 bonus like IBD. It's middle office and you will not get any looks from PE. The starting salary for an analyst in SLC for AIMS was ~65k base. Do not take this job if you want to do banking/PE. At first I thought oh this might be cool but contacted one of my school Alumni who is MD in AM there and he said job is a hole 15 feet underground. Don't do it

 

Had a buddy do it in their SLC office. He made pretty good money (I think) in a low-cost-of-living area and had a good lifestyle from what it seemed. That being said, I remember him saying it wasn't very technical and didn't involve a lot of modeling. I also know he tried lateraling into both IB and more traditional PE and had a really hard time.

 

True, but better than lower-tier BB/EB and MM banks. But would argue work is more interesting than IB and your life is not completely miserable from the hours.

 

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