New Crowdsourced Dataset Compiles Goldman Sachs Salaries, Reviews From WSO, Payscale, Levels.fyi

Crowdsourced salary databases and review sites now offer competing snapshots of pay and work life at Goldman Sachs, with medians and maximums that diverge enough to affect negotiation and career planning. Wall Street Oasis, Levels.fyi and Payscale each publish distinct aggregates and sample sizes that workers should weigh when benchmarking offers.

Wall Street Oasis presents a company page built from thousands of entries and shows 2,715 total salary submissions for Goldman Sachs alongside site-level counts of 25k Interviews, 39k Salaries and 11k Reviews. WSO reports a Total Median Pay of $120,000, a Median Base Pay of $85,000 and a Median Bonus Pay of $35,000. The site explains its charting approach: "The number you see in the middle of the donut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. If you hover over the various sections of the donut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given." WSO also surfaces review metrics such as "3.5" and "3.6" next to star visuals and labels a "Relative Compensation (96%)" measure while displaying workload visuals that reference an "Avg. Hours Worked (98%)" and the number "66.1" near an hours distribution.

Levels.fyi frames its page with an explicit timestamp and role benchmarking: "Last updated: 1/25/2026." The site reports that "Goldman Sachs's salary ranges from $5,535 in total compensation per year for a Copywriter in India at the low-end to $1,004,000 for a Investment Banker in United States at the high-end." Levels.fyi gives a median yearly total compensation of $139,125 and identifies the top reported role: "The highest paying role reported at Goldman Sachs is Investment Banker at the Managing Director level with a yearly total compensation of $1,004,000. This includes base salary as well as any potential stock compensation and bonuses." Levels.fyi also lists engineer and analyst bands such as Software Engineer - Analyst $121K, Associate $154K, Vice President $202K and Business Analyst - Analyst $96.1K, Associate $108K, Vice President $198K, and a set of assorted role salaries including Marketing $105,000; Solution Architect $239,900; Copywriter $5,535; Data Science Manager $25,801; and others.

Payscale's excerpted snapshot carries a much smaller sample. It lists "Individuals Reporting: 11" and shows an update date of Dec 02 2025. Payscale reports "Our Fair Pay score for The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is 2.49" and states "The highest reported salary for an employee at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is currently $59.75 / hour." Its review metrics include Overall Satisfaction 3.4 out of 5 with sub-scores Appreciation 3.5, Company Outlook 4.2, Fair Pay 2.5 and Learning and Development 3.7. Payscale also supplies demographic fragments: Early Career 54.5% and Mid Career 27.3% (based on 11 responses), and a gender breakdown showing Female 62.5%, Avg. Hourly Rate: $28 - $42 and Male 37.5%, Avg. Hourly Rate: $0 - $0 (based on 8 responses). Company facts listed include Year Established: 1869 and Number of Employees: 30,522, with popular locations that include Salt Lake City, Dallas, New York and San Francisco.

There are notable inconsistencies and truncated fragments across the excerpts. WSO includes an incomplete "Base range: [...] ...or $19 month-to month" string, Payscale shows a puzzling "$34.52 / year Avg. Base Hourly Rate (USD)" fragment and the male hourly band listed as "$0 - $0" appears to be an artifact of small samples. Levels.fyi entries such as Data Science Manager $25,801 and Copywriter $5,535 stand out as outliers that merit verification.

For employees and candidates, the practical takeaway is to treat each platform's numbers as a data point rather than a single truth. Verify sample sizes and dates, cross-check role bands and components (base, bonus, stock), and use the numbers to set ranges when negotiating. The platform slogan "Don't get lowballed" is a blunt reminder that pay transparency tools can shape leverage when supplemented by careful vetting of methodology and sample coverage.