First-Year Median Total Pay For Harvard MBAs By Industry

The biggest payouts in year one are for MBAs who enter private equity and the lowest is for those who take jobs in the nonprofit sector and government. The gulf is huge. MBAs in PE make more than $200,000 in their first year alone than MBAs in the nonprofit space

Total median pay includes base salary as well as signing bonus and first-year expected performance bonus, adjusted for the percentage of graduates who get sign-on and performance bonuses.
Source: Harvard Business School employment reports Get the data