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?
2019 was a hallmark year for CLO issuance and an incredibly solid CMBS year. Careful of Ladder though, they are trigger happy with hiring/firing. You'll be fearing for your job every time CMBS encounters a minor blip in the market.
Median Pay is very misleading. Has more to do with the composition of employees than how the company pays compared to others. If a company is all white collar employees, median pay is higher. Amazon, who employees tons of warehouse workers, had low median pay relative to REITs
Wouldn’t mean pay be more misleading than median pay most of the time? With median pay 50% of employees earn more and 50% earn less.
That’s the reason I didn’t include Amazon as a comp for median income.
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