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Best Banking Firms to Work For

Prestige isn't everything. These are the firms that bankers find the most amenable to a satisfying work experience.
Survey Methodology

In addition to ranking other firms in terms of prestige, survey respondents were asked to rate their own firms in a variety of categories. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest, respondents evaluated their firms in various "quality of life" areas. A firm's score in each category is simply the average of those rankings.

Firms with fewer than 15 responses for any given question were excluded from that ranking category.

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2025 Best Banking Firms for Compensation

#1
SCORE 9.599
2024 Rank 1
#2
SCORE 9.000
2024 Rank 6
#3
SCORE 8.784
2024 Rank 3
#4
SCORE 8.708
2024 Rank 4
#5
SCORE 8.638
2024 Rank 5
#6
SCORE 8.333
2024 Rank 2
#7
SCORE 8.209
2024 Rank 7
#8
SCORE 7.656
2024 Rank 8
#9
SCORE 7.415
2024 Rank 9
#10
SCORE 7.176
2024 Rank 11