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Pick up to 5 firms. Choose By title to see rows as canonical levels (Analyst → MD) with each firm's actual title in the cell, or By experience to see rows as years post-undergrad — useful for firms with flat ladders (a GS VP Y5 lands in the same row as a JPM ED Y1).
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| 0-2 yrs · Analyst-equivalent | Analyst Analyst Y1-3 Verify to view | Analyst Analyst Y1-3 Verify to view | Analyst Analyst Y1-3 Verify to view |
| 3-5 yrs · Associate-equivalent | Associate Associate Y1-3 Verify to view | Associate Associate Y1-3 Verify to view | Associate Associate Y1-3 Verify to view |
| 6-9 yrs · VP-equivalent | Vice President VP Y1-3 Verify to view | Vice President VP Y1-3 Verify to view | Vice President VP Y1-3 Verify to view |
| 10-12 yrs · Director-equivalent | Vice President VP Y4-6 Verify to view | Executive Director Director / ED Y1-3 Verify to view | Executive Director Director / ED Y1-3 Verify to view |
| 13-15 yrs · Junior MD | Managing Director MD Y1-3 Verify to view | Managing Director MD Y1-3 Verify to view | Managing Director MD Y1-3 Verify to view |
| 16+ yrs · Senior MD | Managing Director MD Y4-10 Verify to view | Managing Director MD Y4-10 Verify to view | Managing Director MD Y4-10 Verify to view |
How this works
- Canonical level is the years-of-experience tier — Analyst Y1 means "first year of analyst," regardless of what each firm calls it. UBS calls a first-year VP-equivalent a "Director;" GS calls it "Vice President;" both land in the same row.
- Base is from public reporting (DOL filings, industry consensus, post-2022 wage harmonization), not user submissions. Not all firms / levels have public base data.
- All-in median is from verified user submissions only, and only displays once a bucket has at least 5 verified entries (k-anonymity gating).
- Long-tenure bands (VP Y4+, Director Y3+, MD Y4-6, MD Y7+) aggregate multiple year-in-title cohorts. Useful for senior tiers where the individual-year cohorts are small but the combined cohort is informative — and for firms with flat ladders (like GS) where senior VPs span years 4-6.
- By experience view groups rows by years post-undergrad instead of firm title. Useful when title taxonomies diverge — a GS VP Y5 and a JPM ED Y1 are at the same career stage (~11 years post-undergrad) and naturally land in the same row, even though their firm titles look different. Medians in this view are computed directly from raw submissions (not averaged across year cohorts), so they're exact for each experience band.