This is Wharton’s domain, isn’t it? No? Well, you’re safe to put your money on Booth, right? Try Stanford! If you’re a company looking to get into the black, it pays to go red…cardinal red. In 2016, Stanford MBAs made $159,449 in finance, outpacing Wharton and Booth by $22,000 and $33,000 respectively. A one year wonder? Hardly, 2015 Stanford financiers raked in $157,449. That’s not the only surprise in this area. Emory Goizueta grads averaged $122,182 in finance, an $18,000 uptick that was better than the pay given to counterparts at MIT Sloan, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Duke Fuqua, and even NYU Stern. Like marketing, pay ranges remained relatively stable in finance, with many schools bouncing between a 5% increase and a 5% drop in pay. Still, you’ll find a few outliers. Both MIT Sloan and Ohio State Fisher grads suffered $11,000 average pay cuts over the previous year. In contrast, the University of Washington and Rice University banked $10,000 and $9,500 increases respectively.