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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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Sign up to verify →| Canonical level | |
|---|---|
| Analyst Y1 | Analyst Base $100,000 Verify to view |
| Analyst Y2 | Analyst Base $110,000 Verify to view |
| Analyst Y3 | Analyst Base $130,000 Verify to view |
| Associate Y1 | Associate Base $160,000 Verify to view |
| Associate Y2 | Associate No public base data Verify to view |
| Associate Y3 | Associate No public base data Verify to view |
| VP Y1 | Vice President No public base data Verify to view |
| VP Y2 | Vice President No public base data Verify to view |
| VP Y3 | Vice President No public base data Verify to view |
| Director / ED Y1 | Director No public base data Verify to view |
| Director / ED Y2 | Director No public base data Verify to view |
| Director / ED Y3+ | Director No public base data Verify to view |
| Some firms use a flat ladder (Goldman Sachs most notably) and don't have a Director / ED tier — senior VPs (Y4+ above) at those firms operate at this seniority before promoting directly to MD. | |
| MD Y1 | Managing Director No public base data Verify to view |
| MD Y2 | Managing Director No public base data Verify to view |
| MD Y3 | Managing Director No public base data Verify to view |
| MD Y4-6 (mid-career) | Managing Director No public base data 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.