### Comment:
I just watched a video recently that was a lecture to a bunch of guys that wanted to be bankers and the look on their faces when they found out bankers don't make as much as people think. The lecture used London as an example basically saying that as bankers just getting in and even after two or three promotions, they still won't be able to live in that city on what they'll be making. Pretty crazy.

### REPLY:
As an analyst in investment banking you’ll make $80,000. Associates are $120,000+, and past that it gets significantly higher. And that’s just base across the industry, not including bonuses. 
  
 Analysts and associates won’t live nicely in NYC,  but they can still afford to live *somewhere* in the city. Go 45 minutes out, take the train in, and you’re in the suburbs with a significantly lower cost of living.

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