I’m currently a big 4 FSO audit senior (been here for 4 years) and have an offer to jump to PE as an analyst/associate on the investments side. I’m looking for a starting point for salary cont’d

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negotiations and am unsure given current comp being for audit. I’m in a major metro area, make 80k in audit, and PE firm is small AUM. Is 125k all in an unreasonable ask?

Investment side or portfolio monitoring

Only asking cause a lot of recruiters tried to not differentiate when I was looking

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