

On bonus day, I would keep one eye on my Bloomberg chats, and one eye looking for someone from HR walking with a stack of white envelopes.

If you got promoted, that was when it was official. What your salary was this year and what your bonus is this year. It starts off by what you salary was last year, what your bonus was last year. At my firm, they arrived in white 8 1/2 by 11 sized envelopes with our names on a label. At the beginning of the year, typically right after the bank’s financial results are released, everyone gets their bonus numbers. For example, the average VP in Rates Options Trading makes much more than the average VP in Cash Equities.Įvery year, at the end of the calendar year, your performance is ranked against your peers. In addition, S&T VP comp can vary significantly between various desks. As a VP in sales and trading, you are expected to have a number next to your name (Trading P&L or Sales Credits), whereas a VP in investment banking could still be focused on execution as opposed to revenue generating activities such as originating and sourcing clients. However, starting at the vice president level and above, there is a larger variation in compensation levels, much more so than in investment banking. The base compensation for a sales & trading VP closely tracks investment banking VP’s. īelow is a table summarizing average compensation for stub year, 1st year and 2nd year associates. Base: $125,000 is the industry standard at most bulge bracket investment banksĪs a result, the first year sales & trading analyst will take home all-in comp of $240,000-$270,000, with second year comp.
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For new hires joining as Associates (typically either Research or Quants from a PhD program) they have an stub year just like Analysts which we’ve termed “Associate 0”Ī sales & trading “Associate 1” (first year for associates promoted to analysts and for new hires full year after completing the July-December stub period), base and bonus comp is as follows:

Most Sales & Trading Associates are promoted from the analyst program. Sales & Trading Associate salary (New York)

A note on the stub year: New Hire S&T Analysts and Associates arrive in the summer after completing undergrad.
