IB vs. PE Benefits

I'm moving from a large global bank with tens of thousands of employees to a MM PE fund with 30sih employees. Should I be expecting the benefits (i.e., health insurance, 401K offerings / match, etc.) to be significantly worse given that the company is smaller? Haven't seen any posts on this. Intuitively, I would think yes

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The lesson here is that you should generally be asking about benefits before you accept a new job.

The answer is that it could go either way. For things like health insurance, a small company has little room to negotiate premiums down so the per person cost is going to be higher than it would at a bank. Some companies will eat that cost themselves and others will let you fend for yourself. The same applies for most other benefits. Firms will usually partner with a TriNet or ADP and plug into some standard outsourced benefits package.

Given a 30 person company is probably closely held by a few founders, your expense policy, insurance subsidy, and 401k will be a function of how generous they are.

 

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