Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's base salary

Aug 21, 2009 2:52 pm

Does anyone know the base salaries that Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is offering these days? I know they are having a huge push to hire and I have an interview next week. I am pretty confident but I do not want to sound to aggressive when discussing base salary. Any FA trainees that were just hired on have any comments?

Aug 21, 2009 7:17 pm

Depends on your location, cost of living, branch budget, etc. The lower salary the more wiggle room you’ll have as far as gradually building your business.

  Assuming $50k salary, you'll need and annual production of at least $135K just to recreate that salary. Ceratainly do-able in two years but no easy task, especially in this market.