{"id":296408,"date":"2026-07-01T11:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/?p=296408"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:49:17","slug":"investment-firm-compensation-associates-managing-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/?p=296408","title":{"rendered":"Investment Firm Compensation: What Associates and Managing Directors Are Making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In honor of America&#8217;s 250th birthday, we&#8217;re sharing real-time comp data (straight from the <a href=\"http:\/\/platform.jthelander.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thelander platform<\/a>) for all investment firms with $250 &#8211; $499M AUM and a most recent fund of $250 &#8211; $499M. Here&#8217;s what Associates &amp; Managing Directors \/ Partners are making:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chart #1: Associates<\/strong><br>Total cash ranges from $133,750 at the 25th percentile to $211,250 at the 75th percentile, with carried interest ranging from 1.00% to 2.38%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IF-Data-Drop-6-30-26-Chart-4-700x572.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-296409\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chart 2: Managing Directors\/Partners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Total cash ranges from $386,500 at the 25th percentile to $487,500 at the 75th percentile, with carried interest ranging from 8.75% to 18.00%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IF-Data-Drop-6-30-26-Chart-3-700x562.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-296412\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Before signing off for the long weekend, find out how your compensation compares to market benchmarks by completing the Thelander-PitchBook Investment Firm Compensation Survey.<\/strong> All data is published in aggregate with no individual names or firm names reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/survey.jthelander.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click Here to Unlock Free Comp Data<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of America&#8217;s 250th birthday, we&#8217;re sharing real-time comp data (straight from the Thelander platform) for all investment firms with $250 &#8211; $499M AUM and a most recent fund of $250 &#8211; $499M. Here&#8217;s what Associates &amp; Managing Directors \/ Partners are making: Chart #1: AssociatesTotal cash ranges from $133,750 at the 25th percentile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-296408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-drops","tag-investment-firm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}