.....Alpha mag has a nifty little function that allows you to see the mean, median and range of base salary and bonus by firm type and job title.

So a junior portfolio manager has a mean salary of $152,744 plus a $492,819 bonus. A senior trader’s salary comes in at $182,019 with a $431,275 to boot.

A lowly junior analyst has a mean salary of $103,852 – but before we start feeling sorry for the poor mite, his bonus boosts that by an average $168,740, to reach a grand total for last year of $266,171.

Delving deeper, we can cut this by region, firm size and by years of experience. Base salaries in the US and UK for analysts are pretty similar at this level, coming in at an average $111,365 and $108,750. But the London-residents do better at bonus time – getting their hands on around $225,000 compared to their average counterpart stateside who has to make do with $175,734.