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The Thelander Digest – Investment Firm Edition

The State of Gender Compensation in VC

This month, we are digging into gender compensation data among partners and non-partners at venture…

Are Bonuses A Part of Your Total Compensation Program?

This month, we are digging into bonuses. For investment firms, bonuses can come in a couple of…

Do Life Science Investors Get Paid More Than Tech Investors? 

When it comes to tracking compensation trends, including the mix of cash and carry, investment firms…

How Investment Firms Are Leveraging AI

This month, we are giving you an exclusive look at the results from the AI in VC Survey. …

CEO Compensation in Digital Health, Biotech and Tech

“When you’re building a company, there’s always the question of how much should…

Emerging Investment Firms Show Compensation Growth for Key Players

How is compensation for investment professionals stacking up so far for 2025? Using one of our…

Intern Pay Benchmarks: How Investment Firms Are Compensating Pre-MBA Analysts

Recent Thelander IF Digests have focused on the mix of cash and carried interest at high levels…

What Investment Firms Need to Know Re: Cash & Carry Comp

Total compensation plays a critical role for investment firms and their teams. Retaining talent is…

How Much Do Investment Firms Spend on Payroll?

This month, we are excited to dig into new data on payroll costs for investment firms…

How Does Firm Size Impact Team Structure and Compensation?

This month’s Digest is all about Firm Structure & Compensation. We’re digging into how many…

What’s the Payoff for Being on an Advisory Board?

Welcome back to the Thelander Digest for Investment Firms. Many of our readers are busy on boards or…

Compensating Platform Roles at Investment Firms

As we transition into 2025, our focus this month is on the emerging compensation data for some of…

Diving into Salary Increases at Investment Firms 

This month, we delve into exclusive analysis from the recently published Thelander-PitchBook…

Salary Trends by AUM & Getting Your Salary Increase Right

While base salary is a fundamental compensation component, annual salary increases serve as a…

Global Insights into Investment Firm Compensation

This edition offers an exclusive look at highlights from our recent PitchBook panel webinar…

How Carry Dollars at Work Impacts Investment Firm Compensation

This month, we focus on the dynamics of carry dollars at work and how it shapes the compensation…

Liquidation Preferences 101

Welcome to the August edition of the Investment Firm Digest. Thelander is the only firm to cover…

How Does Region Impact Compensation for Managing General Partners, Senior Director/Partners, and Senior Associates?

In this month’s edition, we delve into the regional differences in compensation for key roles within…

How Do VCs with over $1 Billion in Total AUM Compensate Their Teams? 

This month, we are going to dig into the higher AUM classes and examine what the mix of cash and…

Here’s How Much Recent Grads Make in Venture

It is commencement season, which means many graduates will soon be in the market for jobs that will…

VC Investors Continue to Earn Top Dollar

This month, we’re going to dig into compensation trends for the top investment positions at…

The Gender Pay Gap is Closing Among Junior VC Investors

In honor of women’s history month, we dug into the investment firm dataset to analyze how…

What Hiring Trends are We Seeing at Investment Firms?

This month we’ll be exploring different hiring trends at investment firms. We’ll take a…

First Look! Results from the Thelander Investment Firm Salary Increase & Bonus Report

Last month, we looked at a preview of salary increase data. This month, we give you…

Exclusive Preview Of Our Investment Firm Salary Increase Data 

Each year, we team up with PitchBook to run our annual Salary Increase & Bonus Survey…

Do You Have to Commit Capital for Your Carried Interest?

For our November Digest, we’re looking at committed capital and if you have to…

How Does Gender Impact Compensation at Venture Capital Firms?

For our October Digest, we’re looking at gender compensation data for investment…

What Trends Do We See with Carry Dollars at Work?

Welcome to September’s Thelander Digest! A few years ago, we added new questions to…

Does Smaller AUM Equal Less Compensation?

The Thelander surveys are constantly evolving to keep up with the ever-changing market. We are…

United States vs. EuropeInvestment Professional Compensation

Since Thelander surveys private companies and investment firms globally, we are frequently asked…

Venture Capital vs. Private Equity: How Does Firm Type Impact Compensation?

In June’s Thelander Digest, we compare managing general partner compensation at venture…

How Should You Customize Investment Firm Compensation Data?

In May’s Thelander Digest, we examine which factors make the biggest difference in investment…

What’s the Compensation forecast for CVC professionals?  

In April’s Thelander Digest, we examine what the compensation landscape looks like for CVC…

How Does Compensation Vary by Region? 

In March’s Thelander Digest, we examine how median total cash compensation…

Have Equity Distribution Bonuses Grown in Popularity?

In February’s Thelander Digest, we examine if equity / program distribution bonuses have grown…

How are Investment Firms Retaining Talent in 2023?

In this month’s Thelander Digest, we examine different trends on how investment firms are…

Introducing…The Thelander In-House Survey Tool

As the leading source for compensation data for the private capital markets, we’re…

How Do Bonuses Impact Compensation for Managing Directors/Partners and Senior Associates?

We received a lot of interest in last month’s Thelander Digest where we explored how bonus…

How Do Bonuses Impact Compensation for Managing General Partners?

For some managing general partners, their total cash compensation is just their base salary…

Is the Gender Pay Gap in Private Equity Shrinking?

As the leader in private company and investment firm compensation data, J. Thelander…

Which Firms are Investing in CEOs Who are Women or Under-represented Minorities?

August’s Thelander Digest examines how AUM and type of firm impact the percentage of…

Compensation Differences: Venture Capital vs. Private Equity Firms

July’s Thelander Digest examines compensation differences between venture capital firms and…

Compensation Changes for Investment Professionals?  

Welcome to the first Thelander Digest, our monthly newsletter where we explore compensation…

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