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0 Sophomore/Junior PE megafund internships?? 8 14y
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0 MBAs and Wall Street Still in Love 0 14y
0 PEP Digest 2011 Compensation Survey 8 14y
+30 Activist Value Investing: Be Your Own "Change" Agent 1 14y
0 Auda International - Salary & Bonus - Secondaries Data 14y
+23 Best PE Firms? 16 14y
0 Book / Resource recommendations? 2 14y
0 Industrial Growth Partners - Salary & Bonus - Private Equity Data 14y
+16 Just earned my badge of honor. Not sure what to do now. 6 14y
+9 PE Utopia 7 14y
0 The War on Private Equity 26 14y
0 Fund-Less Sponsors / Co-investors 0 14y
0 Bain Capital - Salary & Bonus - Other Data 14y
0 Secondary directs 1 14y
0 SFW Capital - Salary & Bonus - Principal Investing Data 14y
0 Question on LBO Financing 7 14y
+11 Phone Chat with PE Exec- How to Prepare? 1 14y
0 Riverside Partners - Salary & Bonus - Healthcare & Cleantech Data 14y
+14 Someone's Claim 5 14y
+15 BB associate to PE associate. Should I leave banking? 4 14y
+70 Leaving your PE firm 49 14y
+19 MD/MBA to PE? 7 14y
0 PE Internship 7 14y
+4 Calling A Principal At A P/E Firm 8 14y
0 blackstone pre-mba positions 6 14y
0 Blackstone PE Analyst vs. Pre-MBA Associate 3 14y
0 Abbott Capital - Salary & Bonus - Performance Nutrition Data 14y
0 WSO PE Technical Guide? 1 14y
+14 IB Overview 3 14y
0 Is it unwise for me to focus on improving skills and gaining experience that are directly useful towards an M&A analyst role 1 14y
+11 Post PE interview follow-up 10 14y
0 Apax Partners - Salary & Bonus - Private Equity Data 14y
+5 Am I Screwed? Summer 2013 PE Recruiting 1 14y
0 Sequoia Capital - Salary & Bonus - Finance Data 14y
0 Cerberus Capital Management - Salary & Bonus - Restructuring Data 14y
0 Apax Partners - Salary & Bonus - Private Equity Data 14y
+2 Purchase Price Less Than Debt Oustanding 1 14y
0 The Winklevoss Venture 11 14y
0 Silverlake takes minority stake in talent agency WME 5 14y
+20 1 Thing in Common Among PE Associates 40 14y
0 EnCap Investments L.P. - Salary & Bonus - Information Technology (IT) Data 14y
0 Advent International Corporation - Salary & Bonus - Private Equity Data 14y
0 Sequoia Capital - Salary & Bonus - Equities Data 14y
0 New World Capital Group - Salary & Bonus - conglomerate Data 14y
0 ABL or Credit Underwriting to PE 0 14y
0 5AM Ventures - Salary & Bonus - Financial Services Data 14y
0 Vice President - PE Firm Interviews? 4 14y
+21 Leverage Finance to Private Equity 5 14y
0 Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment Group (CFIG) Interview 6 14y
0 Ben Franklin Capital Partners - Review - Municipal Muni Data 14y
0 Abbott Capital - Salary & Bonus - Leveraged Finance Data 14y
0 PE firms that invest in public sector services companies 4 14y
0 TPG Global - Salary & Bonus - Growth Data 14y
0 Anyone with GP & LP experience? 12 14y
0 Anyone heard of this company? 1 14y
0 Hamilton Lane - Salary & Bonus - Research Data 14y
0 Hamilton Lane - Review - Research Data 14y
+3 Management/ Transcation Fees in PE 3 14y
0 Accel Partners - Review - Analyst- Equities Data 14y
+27 Beginner LBO Modeling questions 8 14y
0 American Securities - Salary & Bonus - Equity Research Data 14y
+18 Fellow Monkey Needs Help in Angel Investment 7 14y
0 Nashville Capital Network - Review - Other Data 14y
0 Is a decline in the alternative investments industry (including PE) inevitable? 6 14y
+25 Short-Form LBO Modeling? 14 14y
0 Summer Analyst Interview coming up 3 14y
0 Secondaries - Career thoughts? 0 14y
0 Apex Venture Partners - Salary & Bonus - Venture Capital Data 14y
0 So what exactly happened...? 15 14y
0 Sound Harbor Partners 0 14y
0 JRK Property Holdings - Review - Investors Data 14y
0 Private Equity SA 9 14y
0 Fundamental Capital - Review - Private Equity Data 14y
+121 Non-Street Firm = Non-Street Comp 84 14y
0 Audax Group - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 14y
0 GPA / Transcripts for PE 14 14y
0 Ennovance Capital 4 14y
+8 Asking your own firm for funding 3 14y
0 Credit agreement vote 7 14y
0 Avenue Capital 1 14y
0 Jefferies Capital Partners 0 14y
+2 Possible risks of a pre-mature IPO? 3 14y
0 Long Point Capital - Salary & Bonus - Equity Research Data 14y
0 Bain Responds to Attacks on Job Killing 12 14y
0 Fixing the branding problem with a top JD 8 14y
0 Private Equity preMBA Associate Comp 2 14y
0 Shamrock Holdings - Salary & Bonus - Shamrock Capital Advisors Data 14y
0 What M&A Slowdown? 1 14y
+12 PE clarification 14 14y
0 PE Firms 7 14y
0 Sverica International - Salary & Bonus - Corporate Finance Data 14y
0 Commodities focused PEs 8 14y
0 QVT Mount Auburn Capital Partners LP - Salary & Bonus - Real Estate Data 14y
+18 Help!! LBO of a leasing company; include interest on capital leases in pre-financing fcf? 6 14y
0 Audax Group - Salary & Bonus - Private Equity Data 14y
0 INTERN POSITION: TRIAL PERIOD 8 14y
0 The Entrepreneur State - Safety Nets for Startups 1 14y
0 RainMakers Private Equity 3 14y

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August 2026 Private Equity

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  • Blackstone Group 99.2%
  • KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) 98.9%
  • Warburg Pincus 98.5%
  • Vista Equity Partners 98.1%
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August 2026 Private Equity

  • Blackstone Group 99.6%
  • KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) 99.2%
  • The Riverside Company 98.9%
  • Ardian 98.5%
  • Warburg Pincus 98.1%
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August 2026 Private Equity

  • Bain Capital 99.6%
  • The Riverside Company 99.2%
  • Blackstone Group 98.9%
  • Starwood Capital Group 98.5%
  • KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) 98.1%
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August 2026 Private Equity

  • Principal (9) $653
  • Director/MD (24) $547
  • Vice President (99) $363
  • 3rd+ Year Associate (105) $280
  • 2nd Year Associate (235) $272
  • 1st Year Associate (413) $231
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (33) $157
  • 2nd Year Analyst (97) $134
  • 1st Year Analyst (272) $124
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