<p>With the salary and the bonus added together? I'm under the impression that the salary may not be so great, but the bonuses are usually very lucrative... is that right?</p>
<p>Financial analyst, IT, business analyst, etc… do they earn more than an engineer/programmer? Work more hours?</p>
<p>Not sure where you heard that, but analyst make great salaries for entry level positions. Usually around the typical 45-60k depending on location/size.</p>
<p>The bonuses will, of course, vary from company to company.</p>
<p>The hours are 45/week like a normal job. More around deadline time if a project goes awry.</p>
<p>Compensation for Analysts with a BS (no MBA) vary greatly by company and industry (consulting, edge fund, iBanking).</p>
<p>Anyway - I am under the impression we’re talking $50k-$80k with a 10-20% firm and/or performance bonus</p>
<p>If you like what you do, the salary shouldn’t matter. As long as you can live comfortable off it.</p>
<p>^ i hate to be so blunt, but only a moron wouldn’t know that.
I guess I was just asking in the conditions that somebody likes a finance-related job equally as all the other jobs in the world.</p>
<p>Attacking people who respond to your topic again? Seems we haven’t learned our lesson, have we?</p>
<p>student01, you just come off as a little brat.</p>
<p>lol… just PM me if you have something to say ad-hominem, that would make more sense. i have seen both of you two make the same or even worse remarks/insults on CC, and yet you still go around criticizing people for “attacking” others. besides, what i said above was a generality, not remotely an insult to sp1212.</p>
<p>EDIT: remember, what we say shows more about ourselves than others. proof… all three of us :)</p>
<p>I agree that what you said wasn’t bad or intended for that one user, Student01, but next time, try and use a better tone/choice of words, or else it will give the wrong impression.</p>
<p>But anyways, the best way to look for salaries of any field that you want is to go to monster.com or a similar site and search for the field you’re interested in. These are real jobs, as opposed to the estimates people/your college will give you, and it will show you the qualifications they require. </p>
<p>Hope that helps</p>
<p>Most decent B schools post their job placement data so you can see what people make and where and for whom. Also not all FA jobs are at all alike. Some are 40 hours/week with little stress and others are 100 hrs with max stress. You could easily like one and not the other no matter the money it paid.</p>
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<p>thanks for your input :)</p>
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<p>Ah. 100 hours sounds terrible. That sounds more like an Ibanking job lol.</p>
<p>I have another question:</p>
<p>Who makes more money, the average financial analyst or the average actuary (meaning someone working in the actuarial field, not necessarily someone who passed all 9 exams, who would of course make a lot more)</p>
<p>an actuary with 2 exams will make more than the average entry level financial analyst. entry level analysts only get decent bonuses when you work for the big banks or a top PE/Hedge Fund. Typically an entry level analyst who works for say a media company or a publishing company does not receive a sign on bonus and averages about 40k a year. Entry level Analyst at Goldman makes on average, depending on how you negotiate 60 with a 10-15k sign on bonus. Profit split at the end of the quarters/year can push you close to 90k a year if your division is doing well but this is all before taxes.</p>
<p>Actuarial Science is very lucrative once you pass at least 4 exams. You can easily make 100k a year working 9-5 hours. Assuming you can easily pass the exams.</p>
<p>Forgot to mention but FYI, today is a FM test day for actuaries. A lot of people are gonna fail today. bad weather. bad test day.</p>
<p>I’ve always wondered: why do they say actuary hours are set from 9 to 5??? What makes this job so special from other jobs that makes the hours this way?</p>
<p>Obviously no career is ever “9-5” in job hours. sometimes you work a bit more, sometimes you work a bit less. However, a 9-5 job typically means, you aren’t rushed and you have the luxury to leave at 5 if you want to. Some people work 8-8 at 9-5 jobs but that is because they want to or can. typically jobs outside of banking are considered 9-5. a FA at a small business will be 9-5 but a FA at a big bank will work much more.</p>
<p>student01 - when you buy insurance, for your car, life, home, the people who determine the price you pay for those insurance, considering risk, age, monetary assets, health are actuaries.</p>
<p>So which career path is better…financial analyst or actuary? If you factor in everything (salary, difficulty, stress, etc.)</p>