Problem with keyboard, so will write in English instead.
Optiver works slightly differently to other companies in terms of its pay. The base is the same for everyone in the same office, eg. in Amsterdam, everyone gets 75k euro, from ng to ceo. Think Chicago is 150k dollar. The main difference in pay comes from the bonus, everyone in the firm gets a certain number of marbles based on their seniority/performance and every year you get a performance multiplier from 2 times to 0.5 times.
How much each marble's worth depends on how well the company has done in the last year, currently it's about 3k euro per marble on average, whereas couple of years ago it was more like 1.5-2k, hence why ng gets way less marbles than they would if they joined in say 2016.
The current level is 50 marbles (used to be 100) for a 2nd yr trader, quants and software should expect half of that. And you are expected to 'promote' (get 50 more marbles) every 1-1.5yrs. The truth is a lot of people get promoted way quicker than that, and a lot of people get kicked out in their first year.
So realistically, a standard 2nd yr trader can get 200k+ and a 5th yr trader can get 500k+ (in a normal/good yr), obviously pay is much lower in a bad year or if you performed poorly, and can be much higher if you've done extremely well. |