Highest paying jobs for people out of graduation with experience?

I'm sure this question has been posted many times before. But it seems most people consider high paying jobs $80-150K.

After doing a lot of digging, I'm finding out jobs like Citadel or other different companies have salaries at bear minimum $150K-200K for starting salaries.

For guys with experience in private equity and are fresh out of college, where do they go with high paying salaries?

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Dude what’s your question here. Yes, the highest paying offer you can get out of undergrad is pretty much at a quant trading firm (Citadel et al is 150k base, 150k signing, 100k bonus for top applicants). That being said, PE is a wildly different job and it shouldn’t really matter 

 

You haven’t given any real questions. Is the question where will I earn a lot of money in PE? The answer is most places in PE. Is the question what are the biggest names in PE? Google “Private Equity Megafunds.” But know that your “experience” in buying and selling businesses does not inherently qualify you for these jobs as much as it seems like you think it will.

 
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Based on your last post, I’ll also say that you, as a 2.8 non-target face huge uphill battles. The only route I think for you to reasonably break into PE is to go to a top MBA and go into investment banking, and recruit for PE from there. Separately, it seems like one of you’re questions is “how much can I get paid” — for a PE associate the answer is probably about $200k-300k. Post MBA, and post IB, you might be looking at VP salaries of $600k-1000k. But as I said, you’re facing a huge barrier to that given your atypical non-target, low GPA, non banking background.

 

I'm just gonna be blunt. You're looking at this in the totally wrong perspective. In business, more than any other field, experience pays dividends at an exponential rate.

Stop looking to where the pay is highest at first. You want to know what it really is? SaaS sales. If you're a fucking animal you'll pull more than that quant dude at citadel your first year. But from the looks of it, you aren't a beast. you're a kid asking Glassdoor level questions.

Sorry but it's just the truth. Take a hard look in the mirror kid and get your head out of your ass

 

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