Is my comp in line with market?

Looking at opportunities in the RE. Was approached by a larger REPE shop that would pay all in around 250-255k (high base). Is this in line for someone that has two years of real estate experience (corp development)? This is for a high COL city (NYC, LA, etc.) and would probably be 55-60 hours in a normal week

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It's just weird that people give out a weekly total hours figure as if it's something they keep track of in an excel file. If you interviewed at my company and asked me how many hours I work, I would have no idea. Some days I leave at 4, some days I leave at 8, some weeks i work 8 hours on the weekend. Idk how you come up with "BX people work on average 10 hrs more per week than people at Company x." Especially when every individual has different hours based on wildly fluctuating deal flow.

What's far more important than average hours worked per week is how people are treated and what the culture is like. I work a lot but I also have the flexibility to play intramural sports after work, work remotely a couple days per week, clear my calendar during vacation (for the most part), work remotely from different locations if it makes my vacation schedule more convenient, etc. And my weekends don't get blown up by low probability deals that aren't going to close. Basically just being treated like an adult.

Try to figure out these things rather than using shoddy assumptions to estimate average hours per week.

And yeah like I already said, the pay is fine. If you pass on the opportunity it will be because of something other than pay

 

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