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I think we overestimate how much more physically stressful 80 hrs a week is versus 60 hrs. We also underestimate the disposal income difference due to stipends/expensing in MBB versus BBs
* underestimate the additional 20hrs of 60 vs 80 - sorry typo
Hourly rate is pretty much the same
Industry... WAY more money flows through banking functions vs. Consulting firms. Same reason athletes make so much money... how muvh money is flowing through/into the business
In addition to what everyone else said, bankers don’t make that much more anymore compared to MBB and some T2. TC is about 30-40% higher at each year of your career, but they’re working 80 hours instead of 60. I’d rather make 250k 5 years out of school than make 350k and work 80 hours. At 60 hours, I can still have a life, run errands, spend time with my dog, and see friends on the weekends bc they’re mostly protected. My friends in banking do make more, but with NY taxes the difference isn’t even as much as it seems pre tax, and I couldn’t ever work those hours. It feels like they work the hours I do during DDs, but week in week out. I would burn out so fast
The economics are very different. IB is taking bps on deals. Bigger deals, more $, and it isn’t completely linear to the number of people working the deal. Consulting is a service with set margins based on the number of man hours you bill.
Amount of people on teams vs revenues… overly expensing stupid shit as well that could go to our payroll and margins
This is like a community theatre actor asking why they and their fellow community theatre actors make, on average, less than what George Clooney makes.
There are plenty of bankers making $60k, even investment bankers. There are plenty of consultants who make >500k before bonuses. You can’t compare the highest earners with rank and file.
Also—generally speaking investment bank people who are trading and making commissions on multimillion to billion dollar trades are always going to make more than a consultant. The vast majority of traders aren’t all doing that.
Are people in banking actually doing 80 hours of work? Are bankers the least efficient workers out there?
Because we don’t have to work from 7 PM Friday - 9 AM Monday