Is Ladder Capital comp as high as it appears?

I was looking through some public filings and saw that the median compensation at Ladder Capital is $365k for 2019. That seemed very high so I then looked at the most recent proxy statements of some other companies to gauge how crazy it seemed. Here is what I found formatted as “Company Name - Median Employee Total Compensation”

  • Ladder Capital - $365k

  • Alphabet - $258k

  • Facebook - $248k
  • Moelis & Company - $236k
  • Lazard - $204k
  • iStar - $196k
  • Evercore - $188k
  • Piper Sandler - $186k
  • Colony Capital - $175k
  • Microsoft - $172k
  • Walker & Dunlop - $156k
  • Redwood Trust - $142k
  • WP Carey - $142k
  • Goldman Sachs - $139k
  • Morgan Stanley - $127
  • Kennedy-Wilson Holdings - $118k
  • Arbor Realty Trust - $91k

I know Ladder has about 70 employees so it looks like even the more junior employees could be pulling in $125-200k if I’m reading this correctly. Does anybody have insight into comp at Ladder Capital?

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