The average total cash compensation is $224,000. 41% earn $100,000 - $200,000 and 21% earn more than $300,000. Just 2% of the respondents’ cash compensation was above $1 million with an average base salary of about $685,000.

Apart from base compensation, professionals are also given bonus packages based on their performance. Pay-for-performance is a well known standard in private equity and venture capital. The results clearly show the more the money earned, the more one relies on the bonus. As the graph below depicts, the bonus percentage increases with each earnings range.

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