What will Bstone, Carlyle etc. pay this year?

What do you guys think is the all-in comp for a 1st year analyst (i.e. post-2-year-IB-stint) at mega PE funds going to be this year? From the limited data points I have had access to, I concluded that it's not going to be much higher than the all-in comp of 3rd year analysts in IB, so that at least at a junior level, PE seems to have lost its "comp edge" over IB. But as I said, I only have limited data - does anyone here have confirmed numbers?

Cheers

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Stub bonuses at UBS for associates were 5-10k (according to IBnutz)... I'm pretty sure PE beats that.

Regardless, PE has and will pay their associates better than the banks will. They don't have the government on their asses and they're hiring the top analysts from the street...

 

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