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Congrats on being in such a great and enviable spot. Ignore my title (just didn't update) but MBB does feed quite well into PE but you won't have the whole universe of shops available to you. For example, my peers went to H&F, Advent, Permira, Bain Cap, TA, Insight, etc. but did not have an opportunity to work at the likes of BX, Carlyle, etc. It really just depends on what type of PE shop you want to work at but every single person that recruited in my class ended up at a very well known UMM / MF PE shop

 
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This side of the fence will move very slowly to meet increases I think. You have a lot of ancient boomers who just sit there and do nothing while accruing all the benefit to themselves. They won't move until they start seeing pain, and that pain won't come until all their mid level folks experience pain because they can't get junior support. It will take a full recruiting cycle at least, where far fewer people are choosing to leave banking for PE/PC. It's also far more fragmented than IB or Big Law where all the firms move in lock-step. Maybe I'm wrong, but I have these arguments every day with senior guys about how we need to make sure junior staff is happy so they don't leave. Most of the time it falls on deaf ears. When the junior depth collapses and I literally have to do everything myself...I might just leave too. 

 

From the perspective of VP level and seeing my friends from MBA recruit into investing roles.. it sucks out there comp-wise compared to banking. I have a bunch of friends looking at $350-450 for VP at MM/LMM, coming out of MBA with 6 YOE (8-10 years out of UG). There is carry but you don't get paid on that for many years, and I'm not sure it makes up for lower cash comp for so long.

What are banking associates getting paid in total now, $300-350? What am I missing?

 

Can confirm that three PC shops bumped analyst base. These were all return offers, so I have no idea about associate comp.

 

Don't want to get so specific cause credit side is much smaller, but think of shops that typically take interns. The bump was to 100k base, and I think most were at 85-90 before.

 

What’s the bonus look like for first-year analysts, second year, etc?

 

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