The original TransparentMBA team. Pictured from left to right are Jeremy Selbst, Mitch Kirby, Alyssa Jaffee and Kevin Marvinac.

Courtesy photo MOST LUCRATIVE INDUSTRY? REAL ESTATE Marvinac and TransparentMBA also sliced the data within industries, adding such areas as real estate, mutual hedge fund management, and “chemicals-plastics,” among others. Industry-wise, MBAs entering real estate top the hourly wage list. At $87.46, real estate MBAs make an average upward of $11 more than the next highest industry. Venture capital and private equity are next in line with $76.31 and $71.74, respectively.

Jobs at mutual funds and hedge funds show up fourth at $71.37. Toward the bottom are the nonprofit, hospitality, and arts and media industries, where MBAs make $33.33, $34.97, and $42.25, respectively. Popular industries for MBAs such as tech, consulting, and investment banking scatter the middle of the list. Tech, for instance, has an effective hourly wage of $58.31. However, e-commerce and Internet falls further down the list at $49.24.

Dainichi Heater English Manual For Siemens. Meanwhile, MBAs entering consulting can plan on $53.40 an hour, and investment bankers are at $47.66. Once again, at 79 hours a week, investment banking is the most overworked industry. Surprisingly, MBAs entering environmental and natural resources careers are looking at almost equal i-banking work hours —with much less compensation. MBAs in that industry report clocking 75 hours a week for annual income of $170,000, an effective hourly wage of $43.59. The industry that works the least, according to the data, is “recreation-leisure-sports,” with a typical 40-hour workweek.

Marvinac says job function and industry is separated when users enter data, and the “basic framework” for both categories is based on standards. Differences stem from “fringe” employees, Marvinac says. An example is someone who works in the venture capital division of the Pritzker Group, he says. Technically, they work in private equity, but their job function falls into venture capital. Based on that example, Marvin says, the job function category tends to be slightly more helpful. ‘WORK-LIFE INTEGRATION, NOT WORK-LIFE BALANCE’ While Marvinac says the data is not yet robust enough to glean major career trends, it does pass the “gut-check” on anecdotal evidence. One of those anecdotes, he says, is that work-life balance may well be something of a myth among the MBA millennial crowd. “Anecdotally, I think this term ‘work-life balance’ isn’t the correct term anymore,” he says.

“I think for a lot of these folks going to top MBA programs, it’s ‘work-life integration.' ” A discernible trend from the data is that more students are now making career decisions based on work-life integration and flexibility. “Students are making decisions based on work-life integration versus work-life balance, specifically, with this trend towards flexibility,” Marvinac reasons. To be sure, tech firms and startups have nailed the flexibility and work-life integration, which Marvinac describes as an increasingly blurred line between work and life outside of work. Investment banks (generally) have not. The investment banks are aware that a reputation for long hours might be damaging their recruiting pipelines. “I think our generation is more okay with those blurred lines than our parents or their parents’ generations,” he says, noting TransparentMBA’s. “And I think this data backs that up. At tech firms, there seems to be a good satisfaction score because of that flexibility.” Still, interest in working on Wall Street remains strong for MBAs. “People going into investment banking know what they are getting into,” Marvinac begins, noting he has never worked as an investment banker.

“This is very well vetted out to them before taking these jobs. And, I think, a lot of them are using it as a stepping stone or knowing as you proceed in your career towards senior positions, the hours drop dramatically and the strategy and tactical execution and number crunching increases.” This data was provided by, a free career data resource for MBAs, alumni, and prospective students. Sign up today and access their 220,000+ data points across 2,000+ companies. Hi Robust, In your pulled quote from the article you leave off the most important part of the sentence, which is “major career trends.” As stated throughout the article (and multiple articles covering TransparentMBA and their data), this data is interesting as a conversation (and thought) starter and job research point for MBAs. Keep in mind this is data from a (relatively) small subset of the population, which is MBAs in the first or second positions after graduating. For this subset, real estate was the most lucrative in terms of effective hourly wage.

Obviously this is not always going to be the case, which is why Marvinac stated (and we reported) the data set clearly doesn’t tell the entire story of a lifetime career (or that MBAs are going to start ditching I-banking and tech for real estate in droves). Your experience might be that MBAs at major tech firms work just as many hours as the I-banks, but going off TransparentMBA’s data and the anecdotal data they reference, your experience seems to be not as common as what others are reporting. “While Marvinac says the data is not yet robust enough to glean” Noted right after making an absurd statement based on said data: “real estate is most lucrative career”.

That’s simply not true. Someone saying “I want to make as much money as possible” is not going into real estate. That’s great that the hours are lower and some MBAs do want that but “real estate is most lucrative”? I love that y’all are covering this but instead of making assertions based on data you fully admit isn’t robust just to get a story, why not report the data then wait until it’s more robust to verify your claims?

Lastly, saying that tech firms understand work life integration while banks don’t is silly. I have a tech background and no special love for banks (consulting intern) but IB was doing free meals way before it was cool at tech firms.

MBAs are cool working crazy hours because the firm/tech is hip and they think they’re going to cash in, not because the work life balance is so amazing (otherwise everyone would be heading to real estate, right?).

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This post has been updated to include comments from Amazon. Amazon is a voracious employer, but it has a particular appetite for MBAs. The e-commerce giant is the biggest employer in the tech industry of graduates from elite business schools, hiring more than twice as many top MBAs last year as Microsoft, the next biggest tech employer, according to data from the schools in the of US News & World Report’s rankings that release company-level hiring statistics. And while consulting firms like McKinsey and Deloitte are usually still the single biggest employers—consulting is often the biggest hiring category—Amazon leads the list at some schools. At the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, for example, Amazon 34 MBAs in 2015, ahead of McKinsey (22). The Seattle company also led in summer internships at Michigan, which often turn into full-time jobs.

Among the business schools that don’t release employer-level data, like Harvard and NYU, most include Amazon on a list of the companies that hired their grads. The Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell says Amazon is the No. 2 employer, behind Deloitte, without specifying how many of its MBAs were hired. No longer just a retailer, Amazon has expanded into cloud computing, Kindle and Fire mobile devices and is producing shows for streaming on video.

With so many aggressive ambitions, Amazon has plenty of workforce needs. It has 230,800 full- and part-time employees, according to its annual report, and its website lists almost 17,000 open jobs among its corporate positions. In a of the most desirable companies to work for conducted by consulting firm Universum, MBA students ranked Amazon fifth, behind Google, Apple, McKinsey, and Disney. Amazon is a good fit for MBAs who are curious and eager to innovate, according to Miriam Park, director of university and assessment programs, in a statement emailed to Quartz. Amazon managers often prefer to employ MBAs over someone from a traditional background “because they value the deep analytics and fresh perspective of an MBA hire,” she wrote. In addition: Amazon is hiring future leaders for our company. As the scope of Amazon’s offerings to customers grows, so will the need for leaders that can invent on their behalf.

We hire MBAs for eight different roles ranging from rotations in the Amazon Fashion retail team, to product managers in Amazon Web Services (AWS), to fast tracked progressive leadership roles in our fulfillment network, to finance and HR roles. Amazon teams run like small start ups – you see that in the breadth of roles we regularly hire MBAs for. And what we hear time and again from these MBA hires is how much they love the amount of responsibility they get – making business decisions that often affect millions of customers. Amazon’s popularity among top business students flies in the face of the popular that millennials are seeking employers that offer a nurturing environment and value a work-life balance. Amazon is for its hard-driving corporate culture that pushes its employees relentlessly.

Some workers thrive in that environment, which rewards ambition and creativity, as Maria Renz, an Amazon vice president, in Re/code last year: At Amazon, opportunities to move, grow and take on new challenges are abundant. Our dynamic environment—where there is no shortage of interesting problems to solve or opportunities to build—is what has kept me here for so long. Amazon encourages employees to create their own career paths, and we have great flexibility to move between departments and roles.

Another reason for its appeal is the pay: while business schools don’t reveal salary details by company, they do by sector. Technology companies don’t pay as well as consulting and finance firms, but it’s still a healthy wage: At Michigan, the median tech salary was $117,000, with most new hires also getting a hefty signing bonus.