<p>I thought I made it pretty clear in my first reply what people do after an MBA, and that if you go to a top school you don’t make 75k. Did you even actually what I wrote?</p>
<p>To make things as simple as possible, I will write the most common jobs for a grad from a top 5 MBA program (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, MIT Sloan, NU Kellogg) and a median for starting salary plus signing bonus and year end bonus.</p>
<p>Management Consulting (Consultant) - 150k
Investment Banking (Associate) - 200k
Sales and Trading (Associate) - 200k
Hedge Fund (Associate/Analyst) - 250k plus
Private Equity/Venture Capital (Associate/Analyst) - 250k plus
Investment Management (Equity Analyst, Fixed Income Analyst, etc.) - 200k</p>
<p>This is an oversimplification, but will help you get an idea. More than half of the grads from the above schools will go into one of these jobs or something close to it and make something like this in their first year. Some less, and some a lot more, but this is about right for the median - and the pay scale climbs quite quickly.</p>
<p>This is easy to find via google, most schools publish their employment stats (mind you these don’t include year end bonuses which are often larger than base pay). A few examples:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/cmc/reports/documents/EmploymentReport_08_09l.pdf[/url]”>http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/cmc/reports/documents/EmploymentReport_08_09l.pdf</a>
[2009</a> Wharton MBA Career Report](<a href=“http://mbacareers.wharton.upenn.edu/report/indus_2.cfm]2009”>http://mbacareers.wharton.upenn.edu/report/indus_2.cfm)
<a href=“http://mitsloan.mit.edu/pdf/fullreport07_08.pdf[/url]”>http://mitsloan.mit.edu/pdf/fullreport07_08.pdf</a></p>
<p>Typical top hiring firms (in terms of # of recruits) are Bain, McKinsey, BCG, Goldman, Citi, JP Morgan, etc…</p>