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╭─────────────────────────────────── Answer ───────────────────────────────────╮ │ Goldman Sachs does not publicly disclose formal internal compensation bands │ │ for VPs. Based on available evidence, the VP title at Goldman Sachs is a │ │ single, wide-band level (there are no officially published sub-bands like │ │ VP1/VP2/VP3 at Goldman, unlike some other banks). Compensation varies │ │ enormously depending on division (front office vs. middle/back office) and │ │ seniority within the band. Key data points for 2026: (1) Glassdoor reports a │ │ typical total pay range of $213,109–$391,379 (25th–75th percentile) across │ │ ~4,695 salary submissions, covering all VP roles firm-wide. (2) Levels.fyi │ │ reports a median total VP compensation of $144K, which likely skews toward │ │ tech/engineering roles. (3) 6figr reports an average of $297K (range │ │ $265K–$501K, top 10% up to $514K) based on 67 profiles. (4) For front-office │ │ Investment Banking VPs specifically, Glassdoor reports a much higher range │ │ of $480,547–$888,585 (25th–75th percentile) based on 14 salaries. (5) │ │ Industry benchmarks from Mergers & Inquisitions (2026 update) place │ │ front-office IB VP base salary at $250–$300K with total compensation of │ │ $525–$800K for NY-based roles. (6) Indeed reports an average of ~$145,324, │ │ consistent with a broad mix of roles. Community sources (Fishbowl) confirm │ │ the VP band is 'very wide' with no official internal sub-levels at Goldman; │ │ pay differentiation happens informally by group, skillset, and front vs. │ │ back office status. │ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ Citations ┏━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┓ ┃ # ┃ Title / Locator ┃ Excerpt ┃ Conf ┃ ┡━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━┩ │ 1 │ Total salary range for │ The typical pay range is │ 0.85 │ │ │ Goldman Sachs Vice President │ between $213,109 (25th │ │ │ │ - Glassdoor │ percentile) and $391,379 (75th │ │ │ │ https://www.glassdoor.com/Sal │ percentile) annually. This is │ │ │ │ ary/Goldman-Sachs-Vice-Presid │ based on 4,695 salaries │ │ │ │ ent-Salaries-E2800_D_KO14,28. │ submitted by Goldman Sachs │ │ │ │ htm │ │ │ ├─────┼───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼───────┤ │ 2 │ Total salary range for │ The typical pay range is │ 0.85 │ │ │ Goldman Sachs Vice President │ between $220,674 (25th │ │ │ │ - Glassdoor │ percentile) and $411,924 (75th │ │ │ │ https://www.glassdoor.com/Sal │ percentile) annually. This is │ │ │ │ ary/Goldman-Sachs-V-P-Salarie │ based on 4,695 salaries │ │ │ │ s-E2800_D_KO14,17.htm │ submitted by Goldman Sachs │ │ ├─────┼───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼───────┤ │ 3 │ Goldman Sachs Vice President │ The median Vice President │ 0.75 │ │ │ Salary | $110K-$144K+ | │ compensation in United States │ │ │ │ Levels.fyi │ package at Goldman Sachs │ │ │ │ https://www.levels.fyi/compan │ totals $144K per year. View │ │ │ │ ies/goldman-sachs/salaries/vi │ the base salary, stock, and │ │ │ │ ce-president │ bonus breakdowns for Goldman │ │ │ │ │ Sachs's total compensation │ │ │ │ │ packages. Last updated: │ │ │ │ │ 4/6/2026 │ │ ├─────┼───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼───────┤ │ 4 │ Goldman Sachs Vice President │ Employees at Goldman Sachs as │ 0.70 │ │ │ Vp Salaries 2026 | │ Vice President Vp earn an │ │ │ │ $265k-$514k │ average of $297k, mostly │ │ │ │ https://6figr.com/us/salary/g │ ranging from $265k per year to │ │ │ │ oldman-sachs--vice-president- │ $501k per year based on 67 │ │ │ │ vp │ profiles. The top 10% │ │ ├─────┼───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼───────┤ │ 5 │ Goldman Sachs Investment │ The typical pay range is │ 0.65 │ │ │ Banking Vice President ... │ between $480,547 (25th │ │ │ │ https://www.glassdoor.com/Sal │ percentile) and $888,585 (75th │ │ │ │ ary/Goldman-Sachs-Investment- │ percentile) annually. This is │ │ │ │ Banking-Vice-President-Salari │ based on 14 salaries submitted │ │ │ │ es-E2800_D_KO14,47.htm │ by Goldman Sachs │ │ ├─────┼───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼───────┤ │ 6 │ Investment Banker Salary and │ Vice President (VP) | 28-40 | │ 0.88 │ │ │ Bonus Report: 2026 Update │ $250-$300K | $525-$800K | 3-4 │ │ │ │ https://mergersandinquisition │ years │ │ │ │ s.com/investment-banker-salar │ │ │ │ │ y/ │ NOTE: All numbers are pre-tax │ │ │ │ │ for New York-based │ │ │ │ │ front-office roles and include │ │ │ │ │ base salaries and year-end │ │ │ │ │ bonuses but not │ │ │ │ │ signing/relocation bonuses, │ │ │ │ │ stub bonuses, benefits, etc. │ │ ├─────┼───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼───────┤ │ 7 │ Vice President yearly │ Average Goldman Sachs Vice │ 0.70 │ │ │ salaries in the United States │ President yearly pay in the │ │ │ │ at Goldman Sachs │ United States is approximately │ │ │ │ https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Go │ $145,324, which is 9% below │ │ │ │ ldman-Sachs/salaries/Vice-Pre │ the national average. Salary │ │ │ │ sident │ estimated from │ │ ├─────┼───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼───────┤ │ 8 │ Are there internal levels/ │ Goldman VP band is very wide. │ 0.72 │ │ │ bands within the VP tit... | │ Promoted from associate and │ │ │ │ Fishbowl │ Next step md is difficult to │ │ │ │ https://www.fishbowlapp.com/p │ get. │ │ │ │ ost/are-there-internal-levels │ │ │ │ │ -bands-within-the-vp-title-at │ Yes, banks have different │ │ │ │ -goldman-sachs-fwiw-this-is-f │ bands depending on skillset, │ │ │ │ or-a-nonbusiness-internal-str │ group within the firm, front │ │ │ │ ategy-kind │ office vs back office, etc │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Not Goldman though. It's just │ │ │ │ │ VP │ │ ├─────┼───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼───────┤ │ 9 │ VP of FP&A at Goldman Sachs │ FP&A is middle office at │ 0.65 │ │ │ salary : r/FPandA - Reddit │ banks, they won't make │ │ │ │ https://www.reddit.com/r/FPan │ anywhere near $400k at VP │ │ │ │ dA/comments/1dgguz5/vp_of_fpa │ level. Front office VP │ │ │ │ _at_goldman_sachs_salary/ │ positions will all clear over │ │ │ │ │ $400k in a place │ │ ├─────┼───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼───────┤ │ 10 │ Goldman Sachs Vp Salaries │ 15 to 15 yrs. Base. $179k. │ 0.65 │ │ │ 2026 | $208k-$586k - │ Stocks / Yr. $21k. Bonus. │ │ │ │ 6figr.com │ $120k. Total Salary. $318k. │ │ │ │ https://6figr.com/us/salary/g │ Goldman Sachs Vp salary levels │ │ │ │ oldman-sachs--vp │ ranges from Vice President │ │ │ │ │ (Accountant) upto │ │ └─────┴───────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┴───────┘ Gaps ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Category ┃ Topic ┃ Detail ┃ ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ │ source_not_found │ Official internal Goldman │ Goldman Sachs does not │ │ │ Sachs VP compensation │ publicly publish its │ │ │ bands │ internal compensation │ │ │ │ bands or grade │ │ │ │ structures. No │ │ │ │ authoritative internal │ │ │ │ HR documentation was │ │ │ │ found. All data is from │ │ │ │ third-party crowdsourced │ │ │ │ salary platforms. │ ├───────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤ │ source_not_found │ VP sub-band breakdown │ Community sources │ │ │ (VP1/VP2/VP3 equivalents) │ explicitly state Goldman │ │ │ │ uses a single 'VP' title │ │ │ │ with no formal │ │ │ │ sub-levels, unlike some │ │ │ │ peers. No granular │ │ │ │ sub-band salary data │ │ │ │ exists in any source │ │ │ │ reviewed. │ ├───────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤ │ scope_exceeded │ Non-US VP compensation │ Some sources (e.g., │ │ │ bands │ AmbitionBox) reference │ │ │ │ India-based VP salaries │ │ │ │ (₹49.4L–₹54.6L), but │ │ │ │ comprehensive │ │ │ │ international band data │ │ │ │ was not gathered. The │ │ │ │ question context appears │ │ │ │ US-focused. │ ├───────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤ │ contradictory_sources │ Levels.fyi median │ Levels.fyi reports a │ │ │ discrepancy │ median of $144K while │ │ │ │ Glassdoor and 6figr │ │ │ │ report $213K–$411K │ │ │ │ ranges. Levels.fyi │ │ │ │ likely captures │ │ │ │ engineering/tech VPs who │ │ │ │ have different │ │ │ │ compensation structures │ │ │ │ and lower base pay than │ │ │ │ finance VPs. │ └───────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘ Discovery Events ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ ┃ Suggested ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ Type ┃ Researcher ┃ Query ┃ Reason ┃ ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ │ contradiction │ database │ Goldman Sachs VP │ Large discrepancy │ │ │ │ total │ between │ │ │ │ compensation by │ Levels.fyi ($144K │ │ │ │ division 2025 │ median) and │ │ │ │ 2026 │ Glassdoor │ │ │ │ │ ($213K–$391K │ │ │ │ │ range) suggests │ │ │ │ │ the VP population │ │ │ │ │ is heterogeneous │ │ │ │ │ across tech and │ │ │ │ │ finance │ │ │ │ │ functions; │ │ │ │ │ further │ │ │ │ │ segmentation by │ │ │ │ │ division would │ │ │ │ │ resolve this. │ ├──────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ related_research │ null │ Goldman Sachs │ Understanding how │ │ │ │ internal grade │ Goldman's VP band │ │ │ │ structure VP │ maps to peer │ │ │ │ Director MD 2026 │ banks' grade │ │ │ │ │ systems would │ │ │ │ │ clarify the wide │ │ │ │ │ compensation │ │ │ │ │ range observed. │ ├──────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┤ │ related_research │ null │ Goldman Sachs │ Mergers & │ │ │ │ 2025 bonus pool │ Inquisitions │ │ │ │ VP payout by │ notes senior │ │ │ │ division │ bankers (VPs+) │ │ │ │ │ received │ │ │ │ │ disproportionate │ │ │ │ │ 2025 bonus │ │ │ │ │ increases; │ │ │ │ │ division-level │ │ │ │ │ data would │ │ │ │ │ sharpen the band │ │ │ │ │ picture. │ └──────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────┘ Open Questions ┏━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Priority ┃ Question ┃ Context ┃ ┡━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ │ high │ Does Goldman Sachs use any │ Fishbowl community posts │ │ │ informal internal seniority │ confirm the VP band is wide and │ │ │ designations within the VP │ pay varies significantly, but │ │ │ title (e.g., junior VP vs. │ it is unclear whether informal │ │ │ senior VP) that affect │ tracking of seniority within │ │ │ compensation but are not │ the band drives structured pay │ │ │ publicly disclosed? │ steps. │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤ │ high │ How did 2025 year-end bonuses │ Mergers & Inquisitions notes │ │ │ for Goldman Sachs VPs compare │ that VPs and Directors saw │ │ │ to the prior year, and were │ 10–15% total comp increases in │ │ │ front-office VPs │ 2025, but Goldman-specific │ │ │ disproportionate beneficiaries? │ figures were not isolated. │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤ │ medium │ Why does Levels.fyi report a │ The discrepancy likely reflects │ │ │ $144K median for Goldman Sachs │ different user populations │ │ │ VPs when Glassdoor and 6figr │ (tech-focused on Levels.fyi vs. │ │ │ report ranges starting at │ finance-focused on │ │ │ $213K–$265K? │ Glassdoor/6figr), but this has │ │ │ │ not been confirmed. │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤ │ medium │ What is the typical │ Fishbowl notes the VP band is │ │ │ time-in-grade for a Goldman │ wide and the step to MD is │ │ │ Sachs VP before promotion to │ difficult; Mergers & │ │ │ Managing Director, and does │ Inquisitions gives a 3–4 year │ │ │ longer tenure correlate with │ promotion window for VPs across │ │ │ meaningfully higher within-band │ large banks. │ │ │ pay? │ │ └──────────┴─────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘ ╭───────────────────────────────── Confidence ─────────────────────────────────╮ │ Overall: 0.62 │ │ Corroborating sources: 8 │ │ Source authority: medium │ │ Contradiction detected: True │ │ Query specificity match: 0.55 │ │ Budget status: spent │ │ Recency: current │ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╭──────────────────────────────────── Cost ────────────────────────────────────╮ │ Tokens: 51829 │ │ Iterations: 4 │ │ Wall time: 98.38s │ │ Model: claude-sonnet-4-6 │ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ trace_id: 716e548a-ceaf-4d18-8b47-ac35e3460b52