News listJane Street paid out $9.38 billion in compensation last year! With an average pay of $2.68 million and starting salaries of $700,000 for fresh graduates, it has become the envy of the financial industry.
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Jane Street paid out $9.38 billion in compensation last year! With an average pay of $2.68 million and starting salaries of $700,000 for fresh graduates, it has become the envy of the financial industry.

ORIGINALJane Street 去年狂發薪資 93.8 億美元!人均薪酬 268 萬美元、應屆生起薪 70 萬羨煞金融圈
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This is the real money-printing machine of Wall Street! The 2025 financial data of top quantitative trading and market-making giant Jane Street has been exposed, showing a staggering $39.6 billion in trading revenue for the year, crushing traditional investment banks like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs. Even more shocking to the market is its astronomical compensation: the firm paid out a total of $9.38 billion in salaries, with its 3,500 employees earning an "average annual salary" of as much as $2.68 million (over NT$80 million), and starting salaries for fresh graduates reaching up to $700,000. (Previous coverage: Accused of "dumping BTC at 10 AM every day," Jane Street raked in $39.6 billion last year! Bloomberg analyst: Crushing all Wall Street banks) (Background supplement: Jane Street hits back at Terraform's "scapegoating": Do Kwon has already been sentenced to 15 years; the collapse was caused by your own fraud) On Wall Street, there are always hidden giants that can make a fortune in silence amidst violent market volatility, and the quantitative trading and market-making behemoth Jane Street is undoubtedly the most dazzling "King of Money Printing" in 2025. According to the latest data disclosed by Bloomberg and other media, Jane Street delivered a report card in 2025 (last year) that shocked the global financial community. This low-profile partnership not only trampled century-old Wall Street firms in terms of profitability, but its astronomical compensation packages also redefined people's perception of "financial elites." On Wall Street, talent is always the core asset, and Jane Street's way of retaining top brains is simple and brutal: offering numbers that no one in the market can refuse. Data shows that Jane Street's total compensation in 2025 reached a staggering $9.38 billion, more than double that of 2024. Calculated based on the company's approximately 3,500 employees: - Average compensation: As high as $2.68 million (equivalent to over NT$80 million). This figure is nearly 7 times the average compensation of traditional investment banks like Goldman Sachs. - Starting salary for fresh graduates: The total compensation for newly hired graduate traders or quantitative researchers typically starts between $300,000 and $700,000 (a base salary of about $300,000 plus massive bonuses). - Top employees: Senior or high-performing employees easily earn millions or even tens of millions of dollars annually. Despite compensation expenses reaching nearly $9.4 billion, this accounts for roughly 24% of its total revenue. In the field of high-frequency/market-making trading, this is a normal and extremely healthy level of incentive. Supporting such a crazy compensation structure is Jane Street's "violent" ability to make money. 2025 is considered a "super year" for Jane Street, with all financial indicators hitting record highs: - Net Trading Revenue: Approximately $39.6 billion, nearly double the previous year. This figure not only far exceeds its biggest competitor, Citadel Securities (about $12.2 billion), but also directly surpasses the relevant trading business revenue of JPMorgan ($35.8 billion) and Goldman Sachs ($31.1 billion). - Adjusted EBITDA: Approximately $31.2 billion. - Ultra-high profit margin: Benefiting from the extremely low fixed-cost structure of quantitative trading and market-making, its profit margin is an astonishing 65% to 70%. - Revenue per employee: On average, each employee generated about $11 million in revenue for the company, as well as up to $9 million in EBITDA net profit. The reason for Jane Street's explosive performance is mainly attributed to the sharp rise in global market volatility in 2025 and the explosive growth in demand for ETF liquidity. As one of the world's most important liquidity providers, Jane Street relies on powerful algorithms and arbitrage advantages across asset classes (stocks, ETFs, bonds, commodities, etc.) to steadily harvest profits during every major market shock. In addition, Jane Street converts most of its profits after compensation into company equity. Currently, the firm's member equity (proprietary capital) has swelled to approximately $45 billion, which not only provides it with more powerful trading firepower but also gives them the leeway to make cross-border investments — for example, the early strategic investment in AI unicorn Anthropic has brought extremely lucrative additional returns to this quantitative giant.
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Jane Street paid out $9.38 billion in compensation last year! With an average pay of $2.68 million and starting salaries of $700,000 for fresh graduates, it has become the envy of the financial industry. | Feel.Trading