+4 Work/Life Balance at Tier 2 Cities 3 6y
+22 PE Associate Compensation in T3 cities? 6 6y
0 MBA Student looking to break in to Private Equity - Seeking Advice 8 6y
+63 Best non-MBA masters degrees for career-changers/starters...with the end goal being PE 52 6y
0 Could I still get into PE with this type of experience? 19 6y
0 Breaking into Private Equity 0 6y
+13 Undergraduate GPA affecting MF placement 5 6y
+26 PE Associate Offer - Comp Too Low? 29 6y
+27 Advice for BS liberal arts major? 12 6y
0 Can I enter at this point? 0 6y
+37 Military Officer to Private Equity 30 6y
+21 Vinod Khosla Smack Down Letter to CBS on CleanTech 60 Minutes episode 4 6y
+21 PE BD -> IB -> PE Deal Execution Side? 1 6y
0 Harren Equity and Quad-C - Charlottesville PE? 3 6y
+20 Private Equity - Investor Relations 1 6y
+16 Restructuring/Turnaround Advisory to Distressed Funds 14 6y
+3 PE GPA 1 6y
+16 How hard is it to break into PE out of undergrad out of Duke? 3 6y
+104 PE Recruiting as a Lateral Analyst w/ Weak Academic Profile 18 6y
+24 Whether to Leave a Primarily Sourcing Role at a Middle Market Private Equity Firm 2 6y
+3 Info on GS Growth? 1 6y
+4 Does Anyone Have Info On Alpine Investors (PE Firm That Seems To Recruit Exclusively Out Of Undergrad)? 2 6y
+55 1st Year MM Buy-Side Analyst - Ask me anything 27 6y
+17 Undergrad to Private Equity? 9 7y
0 Arcapita PE 6 7y
+6 Rx Consulting to PE 1 7y
+19 Roark Comp? 10 7y
+19 PE salary straight from undergrad 14 7y
+10 PE Firms with FT Analyst Programs 4 7y
+32 27 year old 1st Year Analyst at Elite Boutique - Shot at PE? 6 7y
+3 Antares Capital LP - Leveraged Lending Analyst Interview (Atlanta) 2 7y
+12 School Advice For Eventually Getting Into Private Equity 1 7y
+6 Gladstone Investments 1 8y
+3 GS AIMS Real Estate Investment Caset Studies 1 8y
+17 UVA McIntire - Not Great for Buyside 5 8y
+1 MM Private Equity GPA Cutoff? 1 8y
+30 Corporate Restructuring to PE 6 8y
+9 Deal Sourcing Leads Goal 9 9y
+13 Capital Advisory/Placement Question 3 9y
+16 Rice University, masters in Energy Economics 15 9y
+15 Private equity tech firms 18 9y
0 2017 Summer Internship 1 9y
+16 Are my schools 'target' enough? 8 10y
0 What shot do i have - UT Austin with a 3.9 GPA 3 10y
0 Could Use Some Guidance for MM Banker 3 10y
+205 Why You're So Easy to Replace 58 10y
+24 What's in a name? Of Umlauts, The Alphabet and World Peace! 2 10y
+18 PE Interview for Junior Summer Internship 15 11y
0 Looking for someone in the Nashville area to prep with for PE or I-Banking interviews 3 11y
0 Private Advisors- Richmond, VA 1 12y
0 Entrepreneur > MBA > PE... Any chance? 3 12y
+28 Valuing Athlete Earning Potential? Tracking Arian Foster! 8 12y
+45 The REAL Reason You Didn't Get That Job 17 12y
0 Ancor Capital 6 13y
+74 Bonus Bananas August 10, 2012 37 14y
+22 PE losing its luster? Thoughts from current PE guys appreciated 11 14y
+19 MD/MBA to PE? 7 14y
+121 Non-Street Firm = Non-Street Comp 84 14y
+3 Internship in DC 3 14y
0 Austin Ventures 4 16y
0 Red Zone Capital Management 1 16y
0 PE in Atlanta / alternate paths 4 17y

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  • Moelis & Company 01 98.9%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.4%
  • Morgan Stanley 08 97.8%
  • Goldman Sachs 02 97.3%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

August 2026 Investment Banking

  • Moelis & Company No 99.5%
  • Evercore No 98.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 01 98.4%
  • Banco Santander 02 97.8%
  • BMO Capital Markets 12 97.3%

Professional Growth Opportunities

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  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 98.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.8%
  • JPMorgan No 97.3%

Total Avg Compensation

August 2026 Investment Banking

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  • Associates (50) $259
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (25) $178
  • Intern/Summer Associate (14) $159
  • 1st Year Analyst (84) $151
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (75) $101
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