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The Thelander Digest
Newsletter – IF Edition
The Thelander Digest
– Investment Firm Edition
The State of Gender Compensation in VC
November 2025
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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?
October 2025
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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?
September 2025
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When it comes to tracking compensation trends, including the mix of cash and carry, investment firms…
How Investment Firms Are Leveraging AI
August 2025
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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
August 2025
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“When you’re building a company, there’s always the question of how much should…
Emerging Investment Firms Show Compensation Growth for Key Players
July 2025
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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
June 2025
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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
May 2025
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Total compensation plays a critical role for investment firms and their teams. Retaining talent is…
How Much Do Investment Firms Spend on Payroll?
April 2025
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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?
March 2025
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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?
February 2025
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Welcome back to the Thelander Digest for Investment Firms. Many of our readers are busy on boards or…
Compensating Platform Roles at Investment Firms
January 2025
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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
December 2024
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This month, we delve into exclusive analysis from the recently published Thelander-PitchBook…
Salary Trends by AUM & Getting Your Salary Increase Right
November 2024
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While base salary is a fundamental compensation component, annual salary increases serve as a…
Global Insights into Investment Firm Compensation
October 2024
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This edition offers an exclusive look at highlights from our recent PitchBook panel webinar…
How Carry Dollars at Work Impacts Investment Firm Compensation
September 2024
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This month, we focus on the dynamics of carry dollars at work and how it shapes the compensation…
Liquidation Preferences 101
August 2024
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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?
July 2024
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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?
June 2024
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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
May 2024
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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
April 2024
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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
March 2024
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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?
February 2024
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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
January 2024
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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
December 2023
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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?
November 2023
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For our November Digest, we’re looking at committed capital and if you have to…
How Does Gender Impact Compensation at Venture Capital Firms?
October 2023
Investment Firm
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For our October Digest, we’re looking at gender compensation data for investment…
What Trends Do We See with Carry Dollars at Work?
September 2023
Investment Firm
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Welcome to September’s Thelander Digest! A few years ago, we added new questions to…
Does Smaller AUM Equal Less Compensation?
August 2023
Investment Firm
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The Thelander surveys are constantly evolving to keep up with the ever-changing market. We are…
United States vs. EuropeInvestment Professional Compensation
July 2023
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Since Thelander surveys private companies and investment firms globally, we are frequently asked…
Venture Capital vs. Private Equity: How Does Firm Type Impact Compensation?
June 2023
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In June’s Thelander Digest, we compare managing general partner compensation at venture…
How Should You Customize Investment Firm Compensation Data?
May 2023
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In May’s Thelander Digest, we examine which factors make the biggest difference in investment…
What’s the Compensation forecast for CVC professionals?
April 2023
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In April’s Thelander Digest, we examine what the compensation landscape looks like for CVC…
How Does Compensation Vary by Region?
March 2023
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In March’s Thelander Digest, we examine how median total cash compensation…
Have Equity Distribution Bonuses Grown in Popularity?
February 2023
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In February’s Thelander Digest, we examine if equity / program distribution bonuses have grown…
How are Investment Firms Retaining Talent in 2023?
January 2023
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In this month’s Thelander Digest, we examine different trends on how investment firms are…
Introducing…The Thelander In-House Survey Tool
December 2022
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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?
November 2022
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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?
October 2022
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For some managing general partners, their total cash compensation is just their base salary…
Is the Gender Pay Gap in Private Equity Shrinking?
September 2022
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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 2022
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August’s Thelander Digest examines how AUM and type of firm impact the percentage of…
Compensation Differences: Venture Capital vs. Private Equity Firms
July 2022
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July’s Thelander Digest examines compensation differences between venture capital firms and…
Compensation Changes for Investment Professionals?
June 2022
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Welcome to the first Thelander Digest, our monthly newsletter where we explore compensation…
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