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Salaries: Private Equity (Worldwide) – Q4 2025

By: Anton Balint, Senior Investment Content Specialist |
19 Jul 2024
Updated 27 Jan 2026

Benchmark yourself with these private equity salary surveys

Now is a good time to see how your salary compares with those of your peers. So why not check out the Savvy Investor Content Team's most recently updated list of the best global private equity salary surveys? Reflect on how your career is progressing. What are you worth? Dig in and find out.

The latest salary surveys

U.S. | PE Investment Professional Compensation Survey (Heidrick & Struggles)

For this report, Heidrick & Struggles compiled compensation data from a survey of 656 investment professionals in North America.

U.S. | PE, Private Credit, and Real Estate Compensation 2025 (Caravel)

This report synthesizes 2024–2025 compensation data from proprietary Caravel benchmarking across private equity, private credit, and real estate investment roles.

EUR | Europe Private Capital Compensation Survey 2025 (Heidrick & Struggles)

Heidrick & Struggles' annual survey includes a review of major hiring trends and an in-depth look into the structure of compensation packages.

APAC | Asset Management, HF, and PE Pay in Thailand (Gemini Personnel)

As well as covering asset management, hedge fund, and private equity compensation, this guide also has supplementary chapters on risk and compliance.

Previous salary surveys

U.S. & UK | Private Credit Salaries 2025 (Private Equity Bro)

This fresh study from RCQ Associates dives into private credit hiring trends and compensation benchmarks in the UK and U.S. for 2025.

U.S. | Private Equity Compensation by Role 2025 (Wall Street Oasis)

This compensation data is based solely on all user submissions to the WSO Company Database through July, 2025.

GLOBAL | Private Equity 2025 Pay Trends (WTW)

A combination of business conditions and economic volatility has altered employee pay trends in private equity firms.

U.S. | PC Investment Professional Compensation (Heidrick & Struggles)

This survey of private credit investment professionals in North America provides a comprehensive picture of the compensation that these executives are receiving.

U.S. | Private Equity Compensation (eFinancialCareers)

Private equity is no longer the promised land it used to be for over-worked and under-paid investment bankers.

U.S. | Private Equity Compensation by Role 2025 (Wall Street Oasis)

A breakdown of the payouts and bonuses associated with private equity, last updated in April 2025.

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