Family Office Salary

I am currently a first year analyst at a family office in a large but non major US city. I passed CFA Level 2 and I wondered if 50k base is a good salary? No bonuses promised or profit sharing of any kind. In a multifaceted role which is primarily working for the CIO. Company has 400m AUM per employee on average. I also help other associate advisors and I am principally assigned to two of the larger clients (1bn AUM each) as a second associate advisor. Each client has 1-2 advisors and 1-2 associate advisors.

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It is my current salary (level 2 pass/level 3 candidate). I am not a charterholder. 

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Okay but I thought this was good for a first year and then it increases no?

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As expensive as it is to buy study materials / software for the CFA, your employer must be paying for it. $50k seems very low.

Any entry level corporate analyst or accounting role would pay more. Those roles don’t drive revenue, but yours does. That makes the compensation really make no sense imo.

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