New Comp Database - Google Form (Now with Data Validation)

There was a previous form on the RE forum that collected great data on salaries; I worked with the original creator to try to build some data validation to make it a little easier to filter/select and come up with comps that actually reflect something close to your role/region. Happy to take suggestions to refine further, but this has been very helpful to me, hopefully the additional validations help you as well.    

Input form: https://forms.gle/4NpstSL8VbNQ8fgA6

Results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oIonaMfMQ…

Results sheet is locked, but feel free to download for your own analysis.  Message me or comment with any suggestions. Optimistic this can cut down on the number of threads asking about comp and become a better source for data. Obviously the form is anonymous, don't enter any information that could personally identify you.  

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Given the makeup of this site is probably not mostly directors. 

Part of me wonders if the Real Estate forum is a reverse bell curve. Lots of young people, lots of old heads, and fewer in the middle. 

Commercial Real Estate Developer
 

Got it, let me know if it's correct now. 

Do you mean a calculated column that's salary + bonus or another question on the form? Wanted to make the form as simple as possible/reduce inputs, but if that's helpful to avoid confusion, can make that edit. 

Don't @ me
 

Damn 5 people from Orange County/Irvine/Newport Beach? 

Shoot me a PM and lets get coffee. I just moved here a few months ago. 

Commercial Real Estate Developer
 
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IMO it’s two things:

1. I imagine most posters here are young (22-25) or old heads giving back (37-40). The people who are 29 years old are fully in the grind. 
 

2. Real estate comp is a hockey stick. I don’t think you make much more 5 years in than you do 3 years in, or at least I didn’t in development. The jumps come later. 

Commercial Real Estate Developer
 

I don't think so. $200k - $250k for 4 - 5 YOE of experience is only going to happen at a big shop and more likely in an acquisitions or debt fund role than development. Most development roles are smaller shops where there's no way they're paying someone with 4 - 5 YOE $200k - $250k cash comp. Maybe you might get there if you get a piece of promote and they end up hitting, but development shops just don't have the overhead to be paying an associate that kind of money in the form of cash comp unless we're talking some of the bigger players, and most people on this board are probably at small to mid size shops. 

 

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