I was a finance major with a 3.9 GPA, now I am looking to land my first real job in finance. What was your first salary? I am not really clear on what is too low.

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2016 3.5gpa fianance $17.95/hr +OT (38k-43kish) 8 years later I’m at 120k. I think i started off below average and should have been more like 50-55 now that might be 60-65? But after 2-3 years you can use your experience and hop to something +15-20% then again 2-3 years later. It took me 4 years to go to my second job from 50k to 60k+10 bonus. Then 1 year later 85k plus OT then 2 years to 120k now

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I think I win for lowest lol.. Started in 2006 at 27k. That was and is insanely low for hedge fund sell side ops, but I was breaking in with a psych degree and told them to pay me what they thought was fair given I knew nothing and would learn on the job. I picked it all up quickly and within the year they brought me up to about 90k via bonus and raised me to an appropriate salary thereafter.
Only posting this to say, if you want to break in, it's ok to take a low number and prove your value. A good firm will bring you up to an appropriate salary quickly if you can do the work.

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Harvard University: AB in Economics with summa cum laude honors, MBA with high distinction/George Baker Scholar, and JD with summa cum laude honors. I started as a M&A Investment Banking Analyst at twenty years old making 175k/year at Goldman Sachs. Now i am a ivy-league educated 30 year old MD at Goldman Sachs. I have my series 7, series 66, series 79, FRM, and CFA. I am a minority (African-American and Moroccan male). I received my undergraduate degree at 20 years old because I graduated high school at the top of my class at 16 years old. I got my MBA and JD at 24 years old through the Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School four year joint degree program. I started my first M&A Investment Banking internship at Goldman Sachs at 18 years old. I been with the M&A Investment Banking division for 9 years since 18 and got promoted to MD in another division that works closely with that division. I became an MD at 27 years old.

Underwriter 1 well that is how you get there. Warren Buffet is an example.

52k 2019, 4.0 GPA

25K in 1980 :-)

I was a drop out but went to trade school first job was 100k in 2003, continued on to a bachelor 2007 and MBA 2011, GPA only matters to the school. Currently, making 3x-5x with bonus and RSUs.

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