2019 New Hires by Function: Full-Time

Chicago Booth students are making bold moves across a variety of functions. Use this page to make educated decisions and get good insights into salary in each function.

September 13, 2019

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Function (Click on a function for more info)	Percent of Hires	Number of Hires	Minimum Salary ¹	Maximum Salary ¹	Median Salary ¹	Median Sign-On ^1,2,3
Analytics/Data Science	1.0%	5	$120,000	$135,300	$127,500	$25,000
Business Development ³	1.7%	8	$96,000	$160,000	$145,000
Consulting	34.8%	168	$80,000	$210,000	$153,750	$30,000
Corporate Strategy/Strategic Planning ³	5.6%	27	$88,000	$175,000	$127,500	$25,000
Finance	36.2%	175	$80,000	$250,000	$150,000	$40,000
Company Finance (Analysis/Treasury) ³	4.1%	20	$111,000	$145,000	$125,000	$33,500
Investment Banking	14.5%	70	$107,406	$175,000	$150,000	$40,000
Investment Management/Research	4.6%	22	$120,000	$180,000	$135,000	$35,000
Private Client Services	0.8%	4	Insufficient data¹
Private Equity ³	8.1%	39	$80,000	$250,000	$150,000
Real Estate	1.2%	6	$80,000	$130,000	$120,000
Venture Capital	2.9%	14	$115,000	$160,000	$131,250
General Management ³	7.5%	36	$78,700	$150,000	$127,000	$28,000
Marketing	5.2%	25	$102,000	$145,000	$120,000	$30,000
Brand/Product Management ³	4.3%	21	$102,000	$145,000	$120,000	$30,000
Marketing - Other	0.8%	4	Insufficient data¹
Operations - Production/Supply Chain Mgmt/Logistics ³	1.7%	8	$105,000	$140,000	$130,000	$55,000
Product Management (Tech) ³	6.4%	31	$100,000	$180,000	$135,000	$26,250
All	100.0%	483	$78,700	$250,000	$145,000	$30,000

(1)	Compensation information is self-reported. 91% of students reporting accepted offers included salary information. Insufficient data indicates less than 1% reporting for all accepted offers and/or less than 50% with salary information.
(2)	To be noted in this table, at least 50% of accepted offers in this function reported a bonus. Overall, 67% of accepted offers reported a sign-on bonus.
(3)	Accepted offers in these functions include graduates working at start-ups: Business Development (3), Corporate Strategy/Strategic Planning (2), Company Finance (Analysis/Treasury) (1), Private Equity (1), General Management (3), Brand/Product Management (1), Operations - Production/Supply Chain Mgmt/Logistics (2), and Product Management (Tech) (3). In total, 3.3% of accepted offers for the Class of 2019 were with start-ups. For base salary, the minimum was $80,000, the maximum was $150,000, and the median was $135,000.