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Quant Researcher salary
Typical Quant Researcher across 10 published seats is $520,000. Signal and model. Cash plus bonus. The seat the shops actually fight over.
- Seats
- 10
- Median TC
- $520k
cashtypicalupsidemarket$145k–$1.46M
CompanyRangeBaseTC
Renaissance
4 of 6 work-email confirmedMedallion · tiny QR book$700k TC$250k base
Jane StreetNY cash · QR is the top of the field$650k TC$275k base
Hudson River Trading
4 of 7 work-email confirmedNY HFT · C++ cash$580k TC$240k base
Jump Trading
4 of 8 work-email confirmedChicago HFT · cash then bonus$560k TC$235k base
Citadel
8 of 12 work-email confirmedChicago multi-strat · bonus is the band$550k TC$225k base
Two Sigma
7 of 10 work-email confirmedNY systematic · under Jane Street cash$520k TC$220k base
D. E. Shaw
5 of 8 work-email confirmedNY research · cash-first QR$500k TC$215k base
Millennium
5 of 9 work-email confirmedNY pods · wide top$480k TC$210k base
Point72
4 of 8 work-email confirmedCubist · NY metro cash$460k TC$205k base
DRW
5 of 8 work-email confirmedChicago prop · under Jump$420k TC$205k base