On Salary Surveys

[exotic]

I happened to look at salary surveys by Robert Walters, and wanted to share with the folks in this forum on what you guys thought about it. At least based on this survey, looking at roles in Risk (esp Market Risk), I see US pay is quite good, while UK not so much.
Do you think it makes sense? What do you know the numbers to be like if you have some insight into it?

http://www.robertwalters-usa.com/career-advice/salary-survey.html

Excerpt:

Below are figures for Market Risk roles in US. Other risk roles in Credit risk or Quantitative risk follow closely.

MD: USD 500k-1.25mm
Director: $250-500k
VP: 175-250k
Associate: 100-150k

In UK though, we have below comp for Market Risk.

10+ y exp: GBP 110-140k
7-10y exp: 80-110k
etc.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

If it is total compensation (base+bonus), I think it's in the ball park.

 

[exotic]

Not sure why there's a big gap between UK and US figures though...
MD/Dir should all fall under 10yr+ experience in UK which for this survey caps at GBP 140k. I am wanting to assume this is an error...

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Could be data sampling size/bias problem.