Highest & Lowest Paid MBAs of 2013
by John A. Byrne on January 23, 2014 
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$375,000.
That’s the starting base salary for the highest paid MBA in the Class of 2013. It’s a princely sum for a freshly minted graduate of a business school, and it may be even more surprising that the MBA is not from Harvard, Stanford, or Wharton. Or, for that matter, London Business School or INSEAD.
Instead, it was a thirty-something MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management who landed the $375,000-a-year gig for an investment management job. The eye-popping salary was more than three times the $110,000 median for other classmates going into the same industry. Even more surprising, though, is the fact that the big pay day in finance came at Kellogg where only 3% of this year’s graduates went into investment management and just 19% of the entire class went into financial jobs at all.
NO SHORTAGE OF EXTRAORDINARY PAY PACKAGES FOR THE TOP MBAs OF 2013
Business school employment reports, of course, do not identify the actual students who accepted their offers. In fact, some schools, including Harvard Business School and Yale University’s School of Management, don’t even report on the maximum and minimum salaries received by the graduating members of the latest class. They reveal only the 25th and 75th percentile numbers, along with medians and means.
But a Poets&Quants analysis of 2013 employment reports at most of the world’s top business schools shows that there was no shortage of extraordinary pay days for the best and brightest MBA grads. After Kellogg, the highest reported base salaries for new MBAs were $350,000 at Wharton, $310,000 at Columbia, $260,000 at Duke University’s Fuqua School, and $250,000 at Chicago Booth. In almost every case, MBAs who are making such outsized sums to start are in private equity, hedge funds or other investment management jobs to which they obviously bring relevant work experience.
Still, 2013, the fourth year in a row of an MBA jobs recovery from the economic implosion of 2008-2009, the big exceptional pay package didn’t seem all that rare. At Northwestern, for example, besides the $375K investment management job, presumably at a hedge fund, there was a $350,000 base salary hire by a private equity firm, a $225,000 base salary for an MBA who went into the energy industry, and a $206,000 base for an MBA who took a job in “transportation services.” Kellogg grads who went into venture capital and consulting also landed awfully rich pay packages with base salaries of $175,000 each. None of those sums include sign-on bonuses or other guaranteed compensation which would further enlarge all those high numbers.
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