起薪16万美元的毕业生
BBC双语阅读(2023年12月10日)
如果再回大学回炉两年可以拿更高的薪水，你会回去吗？假如可以拿高出很多的薪水呢？
基本薪资的中位数到去年为止连续四年间没有变化，不过今年增加了4%，达到13万美元，创下历史新高。
这是今年美国为数不多的顶尖商学院MBA毕业生所收到的成果。
尽管一些毕业生赚得盆满钵满，然而另一些却还在磨练面试技巧，为赢得重要的第一印象而打拼——不论学位如何，你真的能给人留下良好的第一印象，并较早地获得成功？
这是本周领英影响力人物讨论的话题。以下是其中两位的看法。
约翰·伯恩（John A Byrne）：C Change Media的创始人和首席执行官
“斯坦福大学商学院工商管理硕士应届毕业生的薪资今年达到160,287美元，打破了往年的纪录，”伯恩在他的文章《雇主开给斯坦福MBA毕业生的薪资高到让人难以置信》（You Won’t Believe How Much Employers are Paying Stanford MBAs）中提到。“基本薪资的中位数到去年为止连续四年间没有变化，不过今年增加了4%，达到13万美元，创下历史新高。承诺的年终奖的中位数增加67%，达到52,500美元。签约奖金的中位数是25,000美元，保持不变，”他写道。
但是伯恩补充道，这个数字可能低估了实际情况，因为在斯坦福类似“授予股权、股票期权、学费报销、搬迁费用报销”以及其他激励措施都不计算在“其他承诺的补助”条目内。
“物有所值”？
那么，是什么原因推动了斯坦福和其他商学院的MBA毕业生的薪资上涨？主要原因是金融行业录用人数的大幅增加，尤其是在风险投资、私募股权和对冲基金领域。
“获风险投资公司录用的斯坦福大学MBA毕业生的基本薪资中位数惊人，达到17.5万美元，其他承诺补助达到6.75万美元。而从事私募股权或杠杆收购的毕业生，其起薪中位数为15.25万美元，签约奖金为2.5万美元”，另加其他福利，伯恩写道。进入以上这些领域的毕业生占斯坦福MBA毕业生总数的13%以上。
梅纳德·韦伯（Maynard Webb）；雅虎董事会主席
“我上大学的时候因为没有钱，所以我想买东西的话就要打工挣钱。我12岁时，就开始当报童了。”韦伯在他的文章《如何在职业生涯的早期就获得成功》（How to Achieve Early Success in Your Career）中提到。他在高中时，就开始打工赚钱，但同时他还要平衡学业和体育活动。也就是在那时“我学会和懂得了精神的力量——我发现有志者事竟成。”
这一经历对韦伯如何对待职业发展产生了深远的影响，他也以此建议其他追求成功的人。
“我当年是白手起家。但我也知道，那并不意味着我会一直如此，”他写道，“把自己当成自己命运的首席执行官，这是一种心态。这并不是指你一定要创业或忽略你的责任。它是一种认识：即你的人生由你做主……我发现，只要你有决心，几乎任何目标都是有可能实现的。”
做到这点的关键是不要把焦点放在取得成功上，而是要注意通过你做的事会产生什么影响。把赚钱放到第二位，把服务的价值和影响力放到首位，这是成功的秘诀之一，韦伯写到。
“拥有金钱能够赋予你一定程度的自由，但是金钱买不到成就感。所以，现在就要开始对成就感投资，”他写道。如果你没法确定如何获得成就感的话，你该如何去做？韦伯建议你自问：“你打算做什么？你应该向什么方向发力？”
接着，他又提到：“主动自荐去做没有人愿意做的工作，经常向一起工作的同事显示你可以做的更多。勉力尝试自己不熟悉的事情——你将为自己创造宝贵的机遇。”
（责编：友义）
The $160,000 starter salary
BBC News,10 December 2024
If you could earn more money by going back to university for two years, would you do it? What if you could earn a vast amount more?
That’s been the result for graduates from a handful of the more prestigious masters of business administration (MBA) programs this year.
Median base pay, which had been unchanged for four years, rose 4% to an all-time high of $130,000.
While some are earning mega-bucks, others are working hard on their interview skills and making that valuable first impression — can you really make a good impression and find early success, regardless of the degree?
These are topics several LinkedIn Influencers weighed in on this week. Here’s what two of them had to say.
John A Byrne, founder and chief executive at C Change Media
“Newly-minted MBAs from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business landed record-breaking pay packages this year of $160,287,” reported Byrne in his post You Won’t Believe How Much Employers are Paying Stanford MBAs. “Median base pay, which had been unchanged for four years, rose 4% to an all-time high of $130,000, while the median guaranteed annual bonus rose 67% to $52,500. Median sign-on bonuses for graduating MBAs of $25,000 remained unchanged,” he wrote.
But, Byrne added, that figure could actually be a low estimation as at Stanford, for example, the category ‘other guaranteed compensation’ doesn’t list perks such as “equity grants, stock options, tuition reimbursement, relocation expense reimbursement,” among other incentives.
Value for money?
So what’s driving up the salaries of MBA graduates from Stanford and some other business schools? The rise in pay was largely driven by sizeable increases in offers from the financial sector, especially in venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds.
“The median base pay for Stanford MBAs taking jobs in venture capital firms was a whopping $175,000, with another $67,500 in other guaranteed compensation. For MBAs going the private equity/leverage buyout route, the median starting salary was $152,500, with a $25,000 sign-on bonus,” and other benefits, Byrne wrote. At least 13% of Stanford graduates went into these fields.
Maynard Webb, chairman at Yahoo!
“There was no money for college and I needed to help contribute for things I wanted or needed. By the time I was 12, I took on a (newspaper delivery) route,” wrote Webb in his post How to Achieve Early Success in Your Career. He took on a job to earn extra cash while he was at high school but because he also had to balance schoolwork and sports, he “learned the power of adopting the spirit of AND — I realised that I could do as many things as I put my mind to.”
The experience had a lasting impact on how Webb approached his career and how he advises others to find success.
“I’ve been at that difficult early stage of starting out and having nothing. But I also knew that didn’t mean I needed to stay there,” he wrote. “Being the CEO of your own destiny is a mindset. It does not mean you have to start your own company or ignore your responsibilities. It’s understanding that you are in control of where you go… I’ve found almost anything is possible and achievable if you really are willing.”
One key to that, Webb wrote, is to not focus on achieving success, but rather on having an impact via what you do. That, he wrote, is one secret of success: put money-making second and the value of service and making an impact first.
“Having money gives you certain degrees of freedom, but it doesn’t buy fulfilment. So start investing in finding that now,” he wrote. How can you do that if you aren’t sure? Webb suggested asking yourself: “What are you intended to do? Where are you supposed to go?”
Then, he wrote, “volunteer for the jobs no one wants and always show the people you work with that you can do more. Stretch yourself to do things you weren’t trained for — you’ll create golden opportunities for yourself.”