Traditional Buyout PE vs. Infrastructure PE?

Curious what is current consensus between the two as it pertains to Comp (Signing Bonus, Base, EOY Bonus, Carry), WLB (Hours per week (slow, averege, busy weeks), Sponsoring MBAs, How interesting the work may be, Upward mobility, exit opportunities, Deal Flow vs. bidding, etc

Interested in hearing from you regardless of whether you are MF, UMM, MM, LMM, or even smaller. Just trying to get an understanding of what is out there and what it would look like. Would greatly appreciate specifics as much as possible obviously don't dox yourself at my expense but something like this would be great (It goes without saying these are random answers I put that may very well not be reflective of what is actually out there). 

Firm Size: MM

Location: NYC

Type: Infra PE

Title: Associate 1

Signing Bonus: US$50k

Base: US$175k

EOY Bonus: US$175k

Carry: None at Associate

WLB: Pretty Good

Slow week: 55hrs/week

Avg week: 70hrs/week

Busy week: 105hrs/week

MBA: Sponsor but you have to come back for 3yrs afterwards

Monotonous, repetitive work

Upward Mobility: Lots of upward mobility

Exit Opps: In industry infrastructure stuff (idk if you can tell I have no idea what the exits are for Infra PE)

Deal vs. bidding: We actually get deals done although a lot of bidding to be fair

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