Compensation

Large buyout shops are projected for bonus bumps of up to 7.5% as they compete with banks for talent, while mid-sized and small firms see no change at all.

OpenAI and Stripe have already surpassed their H-1B approvals from last year

Weaker performance and fundraising means there’s less to go around, says compensation consultant Johnson Associates.

Anthropic’s recent tender offer fell short of its $6B target, an investor in the company said.

Salaries for junior-level investment staff at endowments and foundations are a “black box.”

Democrat Mark Levine will oversee New York City’s $301.7 billion retirement system, which has struggled with PE underperformance and retaining investment staff

Early-career talent should continue to pursue careers in traditional PE and VC, says a prominent Wall Street compensation consultant.

The value prop of an MBA degree is less certain in venture than it used to be. But the pipeline is still going strong.

Silicon Valley debate bubbled up this week over how much interns should be compensated—and which roles startups value most.

Private credit managers will likely see a 10% or higher bump in their year-end payout compared to 2023, while PE’s incentives should be up about 5%.

As demand for strategies such as GP stakes and GP-led secondaries heats up, PE firms struggle to find a sufficient pool of experienced candidates.

The largest cohort of investment firms take an approach to compensation that is different from the rest of the market, according to the results from the Thelander-PitchBook Investment Firm Compensation Survey.

Investor pay packages have become more generous overall in recent years, but the picture varies across roles, according to a recent J.Thelander-PitchBook survey.

Employee stock options are becoming a pervasive form of compensation, as startups stay private longer and fight to attract talent. But options are expensive to exercise, leading new companies and funds to create paths for employees to handle vested shares.

The ongoing tidal wave of employees quitting their jobs in search of more money and flexibility has not spared investment firms.

With VC firms turning out to be as busy as ever in 2020, many paid out bonuses in addition to keeping pay packages steady and increasing salaries in an otherwise tumultuous year.

As a horde of newly laid-off workers navigate job listings, there has been a spike in demand for data on employee diversity and pay equity—now more than ever.

Empty San Francisco streets are indicative of difficult times across VC, as startups increasingly turn to salary cuts to weather the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak.