2025 New Hires by Function: Full-Time

Chicago Booth students are making bold moves across a variety of functions. Use this page, the class-by-class comparison, and the internship vs. full-time comparison to make educated decisions and get good insights into salary in each function.

September 7, 2025

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Function (Click on a function for more info)	Percent of Hires	Number of Hires	Minimum Salary ¹	Maximum Salary ¹	Median Salary ¹	Median Sign-On ^1,2
Analytics/Data Science	0.9%	4	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹
Business Development ¹	2.3%	11	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹
Consulting	37.7%	177	$70,000	$227,000	$190,000	$30,000
Corporate Investor Relations ¹	0.2%	1	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹
Corporate Strategy/Strategic Planning ¹	6.2%	29	$120,000	$200,000	$160,000	$30,000
Engineering	0.2%	1	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹
Finance	30.3%	142	$95,000	$285,000	$175,000	$50,000
Commercial Banking/Lending	0.4%	2	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹
Company Finance (Analysis/Treasury)	2.1%	10	$95,000	$175,000	$140,000	$30,000
Investment Banking	11.9%	56	$175,000	$225,000	$175,000	$50,000
Investment Management/Research ¹	5.8%	27	$130,000	$200,000	$165,000	$40,000
Private Equity ³	5.5%	26	$125,000	$285,000	$175,000	Insufficient data¹
Real Estate	1.3%	6	$110,000	$175,000	$145,000	Insufficient data¹
Venture Capital	1.9%	9	$120,000	$200,000	$140,000	Insufficient data¹
Finance - Other	1.3%	6	$100,000	$200,000	$155,000	$25,000
General Management	7.7%	36	$90,000	$245,000	$147,500	Insufficient data¹
Chief of Staff / CXO ¹	2.1%	10	$107,000	$190,000	$152,500	Insufficient data¹
Customer Relations Management ¹	0.6%	3	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹
General Management ¹	4.3%	20	$90,000	$245,000	$145,000	$30,000
Project Management	0.6%	3	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹
Law	4.7%	22	$72,000	$235,000	$225,000	Insufficient data¹
Marketing	2.6%	12	$90,000	$220,000	$128,000	$35,000
Brand/Product Management	1.9%	9	$90,000	$136,000	$127,900	$36,000
Marketing - Other	0.6%	3	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹
Operations - Production/Supply Chain Mgmt/Logistics	1.7%	8	$142,000	$160,000	$155,000	$36,550
Product Development ¹	0.4%	2	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹	Insufficient data¹
Product Management (Tech) ¹	5.1%	24	$140,000	$400,000	$180,000	Insufficient data¹
All	100.0%	469	$70,000	$400,000	$175,000	$30,000

(1)	Compensation information is self-reported. 90% of students reporting accepted offers included salary information. Insufficient data indicates less than 1% reporting for all accepted offers and/or less than 50% with salary information.
(2)	To be noted in this table, at least 50% of accepted offers in this function reported a bonus. Overall, 65% of accepted offers reported a sign-on bonus.
(3)	Accepted offers in these functions include graduates working at start-ups: Business Development (2), Chief of Staff / CXO (5), Corporate Investor Relations (1), Corporate Strategy/Strategic Planning (2),Customer Relations Management (2), Investment Management/Research (1), General Management (2), Product Development (1) and Product Management (Tech) (4). In total, 4% of accepted offers for the Class of 2025 were with start-ups. For base salary, the minimum was $78,000, the maximum was $250,000, and the median was $160,000.

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