Production professional- Freddie Mac

Producers or if even if they are called "senior" producers at GSE, the comp is actually lower than optigo/dus shops. You work at the GSE for the hours and you give up pay and upside for that. But that being said, having your cake and eating it too is finding an agency shop (typically a bank than a shop like Berkadia or W&D) that has good comp and  work life balance. It certainly exists. Bonus is the access to a balance sheet and other product types thus providing diverse opportunities and security. Interesting datapoint- A "senior" producer at Freddie got hired as a senior production analyst at Key's agency group. That tells you that while the title at Key had the word analyst in it, total comp including bonus might have been on par if not better than the Freddie gig and maybe the upside was appealing. But of course, a year later, she went back to her old gig as grass is always greener on the other side but who knows we do not know the whole story. https://www.linkedin.com/in/talia-del-forno-86b42b35/