Compensation

For Venture Capital jobs and Private Equity jobs, the average total cash compensation is $224,000. 41% earn $100,000 – $200,000 and 21% earn more than $300,000. Just 2% of the respondents’ cash compensation was above $1 million with an average base salary of about $685,000. Survey respondents with a total compensation of more than $1 […]

The respondents in the survey were asked to indicate the number of investment professionals working in their organization. Reflective of the industry, 77% of the respondents indicated that they are working with firms that have less than 50 professionals and a full 89% stated their particular group is made up of less than 25 professionals. […]

An MBA degree in Private Equity and Venture Capital jobs is pretty much a standard. Over 50% of the respondents were MBA’s (or had an international equivalent post-graduate degree) and 82% in total have an advanced degree of some sort. It turns out the pay difference, however, is not all that significant. The survey indicates […]

Private Equity and Venture Capital compensation progression clearly follows the career path. The compensation survey shows that, on average, the compensation of associates and senior associates is less than 40% of what a managing director makes and about 65% of what a principal in the firm makes. Also the most senior team members realize 35% […]