Is this a good offer? (Commercial Banking)

Received an offer in Commercial Banking for a first-year Associate role on the Sales side of the business (Relationship Manager). NYC.

Base salary is $110K with a “middle of the road” bonus of 40-45%. Is this reasonable, or should the base be a bit higher?

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Just be happy you're not living in Canada... comp here at a BB for entry level out of UG for a commercial banking associate is 55K CAD +8% bonus, 70K + 5-10% bonus for account manager which combines the RM/Analyst role into one category.

$160K USD all in for a CB RM role with 40 - 50 hours per week is incredible.

There are three ways to make money in this business...
 
"whatsapitchbook" Just be happy you're not living in Canada... comp here at a BB for entry level out of UG for a commercial banking associate is 55K CAD +8% bonus, 70K + 5-10% bonus for account manager which combines the RM/Analyst role into one category.

$160K USD all in for a CB RM role with 40 - 50 hours per week is incredible.

You never compare with Canada. This place is a joke when it comes to comp, and an even bigger joke when you factor in the housing cost.

 
"vik2000"
"whatsapitchbook" Just be happy you're not living in Canada... comp here at a BB for entry level out of UG for a commercial banking associate is 55K CAD +8% bonus, 70K + 5-10% bonus for account manager which combines the RM/Analyst role into one category.

$160K USD all in for a CB RM role with 40 - 50 hours per week is incredible.

You never compare with Canada. This place is a joke when it comes to comp, and an even bigger joke when you factor in the housing cost.

Agreed, too bad it's impossible to get a job in the States without Dual Citizen or without having gone to McGill/ Queens Ivey with an A- or higher GPA.

There are three ways to make money in this business...
 
"clear view" My bad, didn't see you were talking about account manager. Any insight into RM salary?

Depends on experience, probably start out at about 90-100K CAD plus 5-10% bonus. Senior RMs probably take home about 150K all in? Once you go up to higher accounts (above 30M) you probably get a pay bump again by I'd assume another 20-30K CAD all in. This is at a Canadian BB and somewhat of an estimate.

There are three ways to make money in this business...
 

Thanks. Somewhat unrelated question - Is this a respectable role? It’s obviously Commercial Banking which I have no problem with, but I am concerned about the perceived prestige hit coming from CB at a BAML/Citi/JPM/WFS kind of place to a PNC/Capital One/SunTrust/U.S. Bank shop.

I feel like it’ll limit my ability to switch firms in the future if that’s what I wanted to do. “Why’d you make a move from Tier 1 to Tier 3?” That kind of thing.

 

It's a respectable role, you shouldn't have a problem moving from a pnc, SunTrust, Capone to Wells, baml, Chase, note I am referring to moving from one commercial banking platform to another not commercial banking to investment banking. How good the Jr relationship manager role turns out to be will depend on 2 things: 1) your own initiative and 2) if the group carves out a path for you i.e. gives you some names to manage over time etc.

 

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