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?

 

That's a pretty solid deal. I wanted to get a sense of what your bonus was tied to, I would have said that it was light in a Tier-1 city if you were straight production. But if it's more of a mixed bag as you've alluded to that's pretty solid and a nice way to get your feet wet without the looming stress of production goals.

 

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.

STONKS
 
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.

STONKS
 
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.

STONKS
 

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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