Strong year for private equity industry sees firm-wide base salaries increase 7% on average from 2014. Preqin’s 2016 Private Equity Compensation and Employment Review surveyed almost 200 private equity firms to gather key trends and figures in levels of pay and staffing in the industry. It finds that among surveyed firms, 74% of private equity fund managers have made firm-wide increases in base salary from 2014 to 2015. The average increase in salary was 7%, with 14% of firms increasing base salaries by more than 10%. Almost half (46%) of firms increased their performance-related cash bonus pay-outs in 2014, up...