CEO Compensation in Digital Health, Biotech and Tech
“When you’re building a company, there’s always the question of how much should you pay yourself. The best way to answer that question? Look at actual data.” – Halle Tecco We teamed up with Rock Health Founder, Halle Tecco, to look at what digital health CEO compensation looks like in 2025, how it has changed over […]
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 newest platform enhancements, year over year compensation trends, we are going to dig in and see how the median total cash has changed for investment professionals since 2023. YoY Median Total Cash, Less than $250 Million in AUM Key […]
Intern Pay Benchmarks: How Are Investment Firms Compensating Pre-MBA Analysts?
Recent Thelander IF Digests have focused on the mix of cash and carried interest at high levels within a firm. But adequately compensating analysts in entry-level roles creates consistency, paves a path for career growth and, ultimately, strengthens your firm from the inside. With summer in full swing, college students and new graduates are looking to […]
How Fund Size Affects Compensation at Investment Firms: Cash and Carry by AUM
Total compensation plays a critical role for investment firms and their teams. Retaining talent is important for firm stability, consistency with LPs as well as portfolio company relationships. As firms grow and expand their assets under management (AUM), the mix of cash and carried interest changes – and staying on top of market data and […]
How Much Do Investment Firms Spend on Payroll?
This month, we are excited to dig into new data on payroll costs for investment firms based on assets under management (AUM). Curious about firm structure and how it relates to compensation based on firm size? Check out last month’s digest here. And if you want to gain access to additional exclusive data, completely free, along with discounts […]
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 people are in each part of your organization, how that changes based on total AUM, and what the compensation looks like across those roles. As AUM grows, so does team complexity – more partners, more junior partners, and expanded investment […]
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 compensation committees for their portfolio companies so we recommend subscribing to our Private Company Digest for additional insights pertinent to your portfolio companies. We understand the value of both being on a board, providing crucial strategic guidance, industry expertise, […]
Compensating Platform Roles at Investment Firms
As we transition into 2025, our focus this month is on the emerging compensation data for some of the most crucial support roles for your portfolio companies—platform roles. These roles act as a vital link between venture firms, their portfolio companies, and the broader private capital market ecosystem, ensuring that firms deliver value beyond just capital. […]
Investment Firm Salary Increases
This month, we delve into exclusive analysis from the recently published Thelander-PitchBook Investment Firm Salary Increase & Bonus Report. If you haven’t participated yet, you can still input your data here to secure your free participant report. In the meantime, we’ll explore which roles received the highest salary increases, how AUM influenced the actual percentage and the driving factors behind them. […]
Investment Firm Salary Increase Trends & Getting Your Salary Right by AUM
While base salary is a fundamental compensation component, annual salary increases serve as a strategic tool aimed at achieving multiple objectives. They reward performance, address cost of living adjustments, and help retain key talent. Given the nuanced role of salary increases at investment firms, it’s essential to align them with market benchmarks and the strategic value of […]