Work/Life Balance in Venture Capital and Private Equity Jobs

There is More to Life

Investment professionals all over the world struggle to achieve a balance between their personal and professional lives. Maintaining a good work and personal life balance is key to achieving a long, successful relationship between the employee and the firm.

Achieving a good balance starts with spending quality time away from work with family and friends. Therefore the respondents were asked to indicate how many weeks of a vacation they receive.

More than 54%  say they are entitled to 4 weeks or more of vacation time and 28% of state they get 3 weeks of vacation – indicating that there is plenty of vacation time across the board.  It is not clear, however, how much of this vacation time is actually taken each year.

With the majority of our Private Equity and Venture Capital Compensation Survey respondents receiving more than 4 weeks of vacation, there is little doubt that this factor is a major contributor to a relatively high rating of work and personal life balance.