The 7 Levels of Finance

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Your finance career has 7 levels and where you are right now determines how much you make and whether you control your own destiny

I’m breaking down exact compensation at each level from $20K intern summers to $50 million global titan salaries, the skills required to climb higher, and why most people plateau at Level 4

You’ll see analyst life at $170K-$220K working 100-hour weeks, the associate jump to $240K-$400K, VP compensation hitting $500K to $2 million based on deal origination, and what separates boutique founders earning $3M-$10M from executives pulling $5M-$30M at major institutions

This covers the traditional path through Goldman and JPMorgan plus the alternative route that lets you skip 15 years and launch your own independent investment bank without needing an Ivy League pedigree

If you’re stuck wondering how to reach the next finance level without working another decade, this breaks down exactly what each stage requires

CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Why Your Finance Level Controls Everything
00:31 – Level 1: The Intern ($20K Summers)
03:43 – Level 2: The Analyst ($170K-$220K)
06:54 – Level 3: The Associate ($240K-$400K)
09:42 – Level 4: Vice President ($500K-$2M)
12:47 – Level 5: Finance Founder Path ($3M-$10M)
16:39 – Level 6: The Executive ($5M-$30M+)
20:10 – Level 7: The Global Titan (Dimon, Fink)
24:50 – Three Skills You Need To Climb Higher
26:07 – Skip 15 Years: The Alternative Path

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45 COMMENTS

  1. American work culture is so strange to me as a South African, especially in the corporate scene, like do they not have labour laws to prevent 80-120 hour work-weeks? We have the more European laid back work style where our longest hours per week range between 55-60 hours, and that's for peak seasons or high performers.

  2. This video is like yeh I am telling you all these things and all the end when you are completely mesmarised, then take my course "classic online course selling" although i am not buying that course but the video was good and a learning here too that apart from finance selling courses is also a very good way of making money and this guy is behind and I appreciate that. Grabing all the opportunity that is there to grab. Be rich the path doesn't matter. Awsome!!!!!

  3. @Louis Garoz, I'm going to study in a top 30 university (BBA) with specialization in investment banking. Do you think if I get great internships I can manage to get a job in the top firms? loved the video

  4. So about 15 years to get to VP, but it's going to take 60+ hour work weeks the entire time to get there. That is brutal, and I would imagine a very small club. Most do not get past that level, especially the founder level and up. If you're okay with making less money with much less stress Independent financial advisor is a good alternative route. Same timeline of at least 15 years and you can be making $100,000 after taxes per month. But it doesn't take the crazy work weeks to get there.

  5. so you have to spend 7 years at least to become associate and +5 years to become vp. So you won't have life until 12 years if you want to be in finances and that's crap)

  6. …and then AI appeared and totally compromised this whole social mobility process model.

    I was able to make 6 figures without working 80-100 hour weeks. There are better ways to make money and a lot of it if you know what you are doing. Finance is a joke. By the time you get beyond Analyst you've already made more money for these clown institutions that you will make for the remainder of your lifetime there.

    I now work less but make more than I've ever made in the past. The mantra I wholeheartedly am committed to is "manifest more by doing less." You read it here first.

  7. And after all this you get a rain through woman to marry that will then divorce u later because she is not happy and get half your money and all your kids. Better to just be a beautiful lady and wait at the finished line and get the guy

  8. I’ve never worked in banking because it’s evil versus people who do the labor part like me and I have a disability so my finances are handled by my family members. I’m trying to go back to college without borrowing. I’m trying to get the right certifications right the right there right that you know

  9. Im level 5 with after only 2 years experience because I went to a posh school when I was a kid and got access to private off market deals where I get 3~5% fees of the deal, and I get a lot of envy and hate from those level 6 guys who spent 15~20 years building their career but can't get the deals I get because ultimately the childhood buddies and trust I have with them family owned business and family offices they will never get.

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