Private equity pay is largely made up of carried interest, but how much do you earn at each level of seniority? But how much do you really earn? And if you want to make big money in private equity, where in the world should you base yourself? The figures below, provided to us by research firm Preqin, give you an idea of what to expect. The big money is in carried interest – namely the percentage of a fund’s profits paid as compensation. Wherever you are in the world, carried interest accounts for the lion’s share of pay when you...