For all of the talk about tremendous salaries for hedge fund managers and executives, they earn an average of $250,000 a year, and only 3% earn more than $1 million a year or more. Managers earn an average of $364,566 a year, and analysts earn $205,381.
But 75% are dissatisfied with that level of compensation, Dow Jones reports, citing a
Evidently, greed is good, but greedier is better. When hedge fund executives hear about peers earning hundreds of millions of dollars a year, that leads to jealousy, said David Kochanek, president of the Digest.
“Even when you’re getting paid three-quarters of a million or a million a year, there’s still that, ‘What’s possible? If I make the move, am I able to double what I’m making today?’” Kochanek said.
As a result, there is high turnover at hedge funds, he added.
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