What is the path to $3mm comp in finance?

What is the path nowadays to making a good ~$3mm around 33-37 years old? If one starts at a top bulge bracket and exits to a UMM or MF what is the path to that $3mm comp benchmark? Move to MM PE eventually and rise the ranks to Partner? Go to a HF? Start a PE?

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