Conspicuously absent from this list: Fidelity 1. Baker Donelson (Average total comp = $319,779) 2. Salesforce.com ($249,607) 3. Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe ($245,206) 4. Bingham McCutchen ($233,800) 5. Devon Energy ($187,819) 6. Alston & Bird ($185,938) 7. Perkins Coie ($183,376) 8. EOG Resources ($170,175) 9. Arnold & Porter ($171,074) 10. Brocade Communications ($187,819) 11. Adobe ($153,345) 12. Genentech ($150,000) 13. Boston Consulting Group ($139,921) 14. Cisco Systems ($135,877) 15. NetApp ($132,396) 16. Colgate-Palmolive ($132,000) 17. Chesapeake Energy ($126,854) 18. MITRE ($124,496) 19. Scripps Health ($123,278) 20. DPR Construction ($122,600) 21. Goldman Sachs ($122,000) 22. Winchester Hospital ($120,953) 23. Microsoft ($120,657) 24. Intel ($118,295) 25. Robert W. Baird ($117,650) http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/fortune/1001/gallery.bestcompanies_toppay.fortune/index.html
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SMIRK Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Conspicuously absent from this list: Fidelity > > 1. Baker Donelson (Average total comp = $319,779) > 2. Salesforce.com ($249,607) > 3. Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe ($245,206) > 4. Bingham McCutchen ($233,800) > 5. Devon Energy ($187,819) > 6. Alston & Bird ($185,938) > 7. Perkins Coie ($183,376) > 8. EOG Resources ($170,175) > 9. Arnold & Porter ($171,074) > 10. Brocade Communications ($187,819) > 11. Adobe ($153,345) > 12. Genentech ($150,000) > 13. Boston Consulting Group ($139,921) > 14. Cisco Systems ($135,877) > 15. NetApp ($132,396) > 16. Colgate-Palmolive ($132,000) > 17. Chesapeake Energy ($126,854) > 18. MITRE ($124,496) > 19. Scripps Health ($123,278) > 20. DPR Construction ($122,600) > 21. Goldman Sachs ($122,000) > 22. Winchester Hospital ($120,953) > 23. Microsoft ($120,657) > 24. Intel ($118,295) > 25. Robert W. Baird ($117,650) > > http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/fortune/1001/g > allery.bestcompanies_toppay.fortune/index.html There can’t be anything better then cisco in this world, join cisco, work from home and love you wife more then anyone in the world does 
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This list is BS. GS employees make way more than that.
goldenboy09 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > selling this It’s a free site, dummie.
God I hate CNN Money, I don’t think they have ever published anything that remotely resembles what the ACTUAL situation is.
What? You mean the average cement truck driver at DPR Construction isn’t really making $122K a year?
If I remember correctly the average at GS is between 300k and 500k. By the way where is Bain/ McKinsey?
1morelevel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If I remember correctly the average at GS is > between 300k and 500k. By the way where is Bain/ > McKinsey? pretty sure the average this year is like 498k w/ bonus. This must be the base salary, which completely discounts the finance industry.
here’s the link for GS: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/201001221646DOWJONESDJONLINE000633_FORTUNE5.htm
SMIRK Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What? You mean the average cement truck driver at > DPR Construction isn’t really making $122K a year? And the toothpaste machine operator at Colgate-Palmolive is making 132k POST AF DISCOUNT. I wonder if he passed all 3 levels in one try, at that salary he MUST have the CFA.
packattack4 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > pretty sure the average this year is like 498k w/ > bonus. This must be the base salary, which > completely discounts the finance industry. No, total comp.
SMIRK Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > packattack4 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > pretty sure the average this year is like 498k > w/ > > bonus. This must be the base salary, which > > completely discounts the finance industry. > > No, total comp. must be for the AA’s
Guys, the median person at Goldman Sachs does not make $500k. That number is skewed by the department heads, MD IBankers and hotshot traders that pull down seven figures. There are legions of MO, BO, administrative staff, compliance people, and all other support personnel that get paid far below the mean. What’s the ratio of front office to support personnel at your company? GS is no different.
SMIRK Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > goldenboy09 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > selling this > > It’s a free site, dummie. agree so let me sell this bs
Without qualifiers these numbers are worthless.
249 ppl can get a bigger piece of pie than 29,000 people. Using averages over different size samples, something don’t seem right there.
What about the NFL? Huh, where would they be on this list?
The Goldman blurb: Average total pay: $122,000 For: Analysts, Program Analysts, Associates and Professional Non-Exempt Best companies rank: 24 Wall Street’s meltdown is so 2008. Goldman - which reorganized as a bank holding company, received billions in government help, and repaid some $10 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program debt with interest this past spring – generated billions in profits in 2009. In the first 9 months of that year alone, Goldman set aside $16.2 billion for compensation, enough to pay employees nearly $500,000 apiece. Although the firm said that its total compensation was lower than in 2007, a political uproar is already in full swing. To calm public anger, Goldman may pay more of its bonuses in stock, or ask employees to donate a percent of their earnings to charity. And the 30 top honchos at Goldman have agreed that instead of the usual cash payment, they’ll take their bonuses in the form of stock they can’t sell for five years. No matter how it turns out, all employees will surely do well. The lowest-paid employees get at least $6,000 pumped into their 401(k) accounts. Goldman’s stock grant plan was expanded to include more employees. Cash bonuses for much of senior management beyond the top 30 were expected to be in line with the 2008 payout, when Goldman awarded bonuses of more than $1 million to 953 employees and bonuses of more than $5 million to 78 executives.
These numbers are for the most common salaried positions (median). Finance companies are too bottom heavy to crack the top of the list.