The bankers most likely to be looking for a new job in 2025
The 1,700 financial services respondents to our bonus expectations survey are pretty unanimous about bonuses going up. They're less unanimous, but still pretty sure, about their job security. And they're downright divided on whether they'll be looking for a new job in 2025.
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The table below shows the percentage of respondents from each bank who intend to look for a new job this year – as well as the number who promised to do the same thing a year ago.
The bankers most likely to be seeking a new job in 2025 are those at Standard Chartered, followed at some distance by those working at HSBC, BNP Paribas, and UBS.
Not coincidentally, those are all European banks – and as our Ideal Employer report earlier this year showed, no matter where you are in the world, the best-perceived place to work in financial services is at an American bank.
Interestingly, the people at these banks also self-report anticipated difficulty in finding a new job. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 the most difficult, Standard Chartered employees think on average they would have 5.7 difficulty. HSBC, BNP Paribas, and UBS employees self-report difficulties of 6.1, 6.7, and 5.7 respectively.
Generally, the bankers that anticipate staying at their current employer give similar scores. Citigroup, Barclays, and JPMorgan employees say that they would have difficulties of 5.9, 5.5, and 5.4 in finding a new job, respectively.
The real outlier was Goldman Sachs. Employees at the firm give their anticipated difficulty in finding a new job just a 4.2 – by some margin the lowest of the banks we analyzed. The highest anticipated difficulty is at Morgan Stanley, where employees give a collective score of 7.0.
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