Benchmarking MF/UMM PE Base Salaries

My firm is thinking of bumping up base salary and so I was curious what AS1 salaries were for the big ones. Will keep updating as data points come in. Sorry if this has already been created elsewhere.

Edit1: Please comment what the before-and-after is (as in before this new wave of increased base salaries in IB and after if it changed at-all).

Data Points:

$1-2BN - $100K - TBD on bump

$1-2BN (new fund) - $200K

$1-3BN - $115K

$2BN - $130K

$4-7BN - $100K

$5BN - $120K - no change but bonuses increased in 2020-21

$15BN - $150K

MF (BX tier, but not BX) - $120K - no change

MF - $150K - no change

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this 240k all in shit is what people are selling their soul for?? someone quick tell me they only work 60 hours before i stroke of confusion... or tell me youre making 2 mil at 30 or something

 

genuinely curious, when does the pay from that start to take off from banking pay? like would a 30 year old who did 2 banking -> pe be making way more than a 30 year old svp who stayed in banking? say were comparing EVR to BX

 

I mean pre-MBA associate is basically another analyst stint. People aren’t really “selling their souls” for that shit (just like they wouldn’t be for fucking analyst comp as career bankers) they’re doing it for the same reasons they chose banking: potential later career $$$s and exit opps. 

Nobody does banking / PE for the analyst years or pre-MBA associate years they do it to lay the ground work for something else. That’s like saying doctors become doctors for their residency years working 80hr weeks.. lol no they do it so they can come out with a secure $200-800k a year pay check for the rest of their life. 

 

Analyst or associate? Seems kinda low for associate in direct lending. Low COL city?

 

Got it, so what’s the best way to gauge what bonus will be given there are less data points than IB for example?

 

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