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My guess is that their cash comp is probably a bit lower (around 1mm), but their deferred gets them to the 2-3mm mark all in.

If you look at public filings, the trend for the c-suite has been to take limited cash comp, but earn the rest in carry/deferred. I would expect that companies woukd follow that example.

Also would mention that I worked on some budgeting for a fund and MD/Senior PM was 700k cash, 1mm deferred/carry. This hire reports directly to the global head of RE. I don't imagine that the global head makes more than 2x this guy

 

I don't know what to tell you. In good years promote will probably push those higher, but it's a MM shop and the CEO/founder has most of the ownership (there are some vestigial partners that participate in current funds too, which shrinks the pie). These are actual data points though (outside of the company distributions which I don't have any insight into).

 

RE compensation after the associate level is tough to generalize. It really depends on your firm and the size of your firm along with the firm's structure. Such as if it is wholly owned by the partners or does another firm own part of the company. Also above the associate level the cash comp doesn't become the largest component of someone's compensation the promote / carry does.

For example I work in a middle market REPE fund with roughly 7 years of experience. My projected all in comp over the next 8 year should be around $800k per year with more than half of that in promote / carry. That is based upon 3 funds stacked upon each other that is growing in size but also I am getting a larger portion of the promote.

 
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