Dear WSO Community,
I'm pleased to announce the release of the WSO Compensation Report! We had another great year with even MORE entries than last year (over 5,000)! It took many months of hard work and finally, it's here ...and it's still free :-)
Yes, that's right, access to the FULL 155 page WSO Compensation Report is 100% free. (up from 108 pages last year). This report contains thousands of data points across investment banking, private equity, hedge funds and management consulting.
The report cuts the data numerous ways including division, city, AUM and company type and can help you know if you are getting paid enough. In the 2014 version, we even have data on target vs. non-target schools, race, GPA and major. Where else can you find interesting insights like that?
Or if you are an employer, this report will give you an idea of what range you should be paying your employees.
DOWNLOAD A FREE PREVIEW OF 2013 HERE TO GET AN IDEA OF WHAT IS INCLUDED
Here's how you get access to the full 155 page report:
The same as last year. All we ask from you is to take a few minutes to help us continue to build the most comprehensive and accurate database possible. After submitting three total entries (past entries count) to our Company Database (these entries can either be Company Reviews, Interview Insights* and/or Compensation Datapoints), your entries will be reviewed and you will be granted access to the report after 24 hours of submission (assuming we approve your additions).
Please DO NOT send me a private message or ask here if/when you can be given access unless:
1) you have submitted 3 entries and
2) 48 hours have passed from when you submitted your third entry and you still don't have access OR
3) you are a member of the media that would like to cover Wall Street Oasis and unique insights from the report ([email protected])
Once you have access, you can go to the link at the top of this post and it will show the 2014 and 2013 reports as flash files. There are no hard copies sent out or e-mailed. Thank You..
Tutorial video:
Thanks for the thoughts. We do offer a full access option for $999/year, and a few companies every year take that option (still does not download because again, if the person is purchasing it for themselves, why do they need the PDF version to email it?).
Other compensation reports with less detail go for $2,000+, but the point is we are really still in the early stages and are trying to grow the database as much as possible...we're not trying to sell it right now.
I hear your point on branding, which is why I'll be on several media outlets over the coming months talking about the report. The point is, I believe just allowing a download would significantly reduce the contributions we collect and make next years report less valuable. WSO doesn't suffer from a lack of brand recognition in our target market - we suffer from a lack of inbound links and media mentions -- so that is one of the ways we will leverage this report.
It takes ~1 min to sign up and less than 15 minutes to submit 3 entries to gain access. If your VC friends don't think that it's worth it (or you don't think they'd bother) to gain access to 100% of the data we have, then that's fine, but we can't let unprotected copies roam free (yet)...maybe in a few years once we've reached a large enough scale or maybe we can delay release the report, etc, but this report did take many thousands of $ to produce, so I'm going to make sure that if we keep it free, we at least get more data for next year as "payment"
Hope that makes sense. If professionals can get this from their Certified User friends, what incentive do they have to sign up? Also, not sure if you've seen in the past few months we've been certifying more users than ever. I dont think getting a free report e-mailed from a buddy will incentivize someone to sign up for the community - maybe that's where our opinions differ?
Thanks, Patrick