Gender VC Compensation Data: The Pay Gap is Closing Among Junior Investors
In honor of women’s history month, we dug into the investment firm dataset to analyze how representation of female VC investors has changed over the last four years and what progress has been made in closing the pay gap between men and women in venture. Here’s what we found: When looking at senior managing directors […]
What Hiring Trends are We Seeing at CVC Units?
Welcome back to the Thelander Digest! For those of you that are new or want to revisit our previous issues, you can find CVC here, traditional investment firm (such as VC) here and private company here. If you are interested in subscribing to one or all of our Digests, you can sign up here. In this month’s edition, we’ll be exploring different hiring trends at CVC […]
Private Company CEO Compensation by Valuation & Financing
In September 2022, Fortune used Thelander data to look at CEO compensation by financing and valuation. With the challenging fundraising environment, private companies staying private longer and shifting valuations, we wanted to see how the data has changed. Chart 1 looks at CEO median total cash year-over-year by total financing. Our data shows: Chart 2 looks at CEO median total cash year-over-year by valuation. Compensation by valuation […]
What Hiring Trends are We Seeing at Investment Firms?
This month we’ll be exploring different hiring trends at investment firms. We’ll take a look at where new hires come from, and how long one stays in a position before being promoted. Chart 1 looks at where new hires to venture capital (VC) firms came from. We see the following trends: Chart 2 looks at the median number of years one stays in […]
How are Life Science Male and Female CEOs Compensated Differently?
In March 2023, we looked at the gender pay gap for life science CEOs. Almost a year later, we are sharing new data from the Thelander Private Compensation dataset, which looks at the number of female CEOs in life sciences and investigates how the gender pay gap is panning out for privately held life science companies in 2024. […]
Results from the CVC Salary Increase & Bonus Survey
Last month, we looked at a preview of salary increase data. This month, we’ll give you an exclusive look at the bonus section, and examine how bonuses are measuring up for 2024. To review, a cash bonus is the preferred mechanism for rewarding individual performance, and is meant to be a short-term/annual incentive. With the current talent market being highly […]
Investment Firm Bonus Compensation: 2024 Salary Increase & Bonus Results
Last month, we looked at a preview of salary increase data. This month, we give you an exclusive look at the bonus section, and examine how bonuses are looking for 2024. To review, a cash bonus is the preferred mechanism for rewarding individual performance, and is meant to be a short-term/annual incentive. With the current talent market being […]
Private Company Salary Increases for Staff-Level Employees: 2021–2024
Welcome back to the first Private Company Digest of 2024. Following a successful week at the J.P.Morgan Healthcare Conference, we hosted a women’s event at Tiffany & Co honoring more than 300 women executives and investment professionals. You can find pictures here. This month we are diving deeper into the results from the Salary Increase & Bonus Survey, which […]
Exclusive Preview Of Our CVC Salary Increase Data
Each year, we team up with PitchBook to run our annual Salary Increase & Bonus Survey. As it’s the holiday season, we wanted to provide our email subscribers with a treat for our December Thelander Digest. We’ve included an exclusive preview of the results from the Salary Increase & Bonus Survey that examines how salary increase percentages are looking for 2024 from those that have […]
How are Salary Increases Impacted by Total Amount of Financing?
In this month’s Thelander Digest, we are excited to give you a peak at some of our findings from the Thelander 2023 Year-End Merit Increase, Option Pool & Bonus Survey. With more than 350 participating companies, the survey was a huge success. We explore how CEO salary increases at private companies are impacted by the total amount […]