Mid Market PE or Tech

Guys, have been thinking of moving out of MF to mid market PE for the better lifestyle and am now contemplating offers on hand. 

Perhaps I've just been too caught up with work in the large cap space and only looked at the mid market recently - I'm surprised at the drop in compensation vs MF peers (40-50% discount). At these compensation levels, it would make more sense to move from my MF say into a tech role (~30% compensation discount and even better lifestyle than mid market PE) - Has anyone been in a similar position / evaluated these 2 options? Happy to hear thoughts

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Curious to hear how you’re getting to those % discounts? When you say MM are you referring to LMM? Also what type of roles are you looking at in tech that are only a 30% discount to MF PE (400k+ at your level I presume).

there are plenty of MM firms that pay maybe a 10-20% discount to MFs, though lifestyle is highly variable depending on which firm (some could be just as bad as MF).

 

Very odd that FAANG is only a 30% discount, which is probably $210k-280k. I haven't heard of many roles paying anywhere near that especially in FP&A or some generic business, revenue, sales ops role. In your non-tech roles, is this like corporate strategy, corpdev, or product management role?

My impression was that after say 4-5 years experience you would get mid 100s to low 200s of which stock will likely make up 20-30% of that comp. 

Very curious as I am looking to exit after 4-5 years in IB and I am having difficulty finding a tech role with better WLB without sacrificing a ton in pay. Even at associate level, whether you are in MF PE or IB, you are likely at around $350k, so even a 40% discount is $210k which is a large discount, but is still really high comp in the tech space if you aren't in a tech role. 

 

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