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Highest earning graduate roles by company
EY
Graduate role: Technology Consulting
Base salary: 45k–£56k small bonus
GS
Role : Investment Banking Analyst
Salary: £65k–£70k base, bonus varies by year, can push total to £100k–£120k in strong years
CITADEL
Role: Quantitative Researcher
Salary: £75k–£97k+ base, performance bonus varies widely
Google
Role: Software Engineer, New Grad (L3)
Salary: £97k–£135k base, stock/bonus can add £20k–£40k+
DE Shaw & Co
Role: Quantitative Researcher/Trader
Salary: £150k base, bonus reportedly significant, unconfirmed
Jane Street
Role: Quantitative Trader
Salary: £150k–£225k base, bonus reportedly 50–100% of base, unconfirmed
Average graduate salary is £30,500
Don't get it twisted,
Jane Street's grad acceptance rate is under 1%
and Citadel's is around 0.4%, compared to
Harvard's acceptance rate 3–4%,
But there are 5.67 million companies in the UK
In the UK
M&A advisorys: 1,127 firms
AM: 2,600 firms
Fintechs: 4,400 firms
VC and PE funds: 547 firms
Consultancies: 180,351 firms
Accountancies: 35,000 firms
Financial advisers: 4,778 firms
Startups: 1,074 firms
99.85% are SMEs (under 50 person headcount)
The only way these smaller firms hire
is referrals.
Cold emails mostly get ignored
because a firm would rather go
through trusted agencies then risk a
random hire (most of the time)
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