JPMorgan is the Ideal Employer in financial services, 2024
We revived our Ideal Employer report last year after a five year hiatus, and the people spoke: JPMorgan won by a landslide.
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We ran the report again this year, and our 8,000 respondents voted resoundingly: once again, JPMorgan was the Ideal Employer in financial services. By a landslide.
It’s hard to understate the scale with which JPMorgan won the vote this year. The bank was seen as the Ideal Employer in every single major jurisdiction, across every ethnic grouping, and across every gender identity. Every single age category selected JPMorgan as both its first- and second-choice employer.
Why did JPMorgan do so well? Our data suggests it performs particularly strongly for its perceived compensation and for rewarding careers. It ranks less highly for metrics such as culture & integrity, despite its recent well-publicized move to limit working hours to 80 a week. The implication is that JPMorgan is a tough ship to be on – but one guaranteed to float.
JPMorgan is a consistent global leader in the investment banking market. During its 2024 investor day presentation, it stressed its number one position in North American investment banking revenues for more than a decade, its number one position in EMEA since 2014 and its top three position in APAC since 2015.
In 2023 it had an 11% share of global fixed income trading revenues and a 12.3% share of global equities revenues. In the first half of 2024, Boston Consulting Group ranked it first for fixed income trading and third for equities.
Aside from its obvious advantages, such as its huge balance sheet, brand name, and consistent banking pipeline, JPMorgan also has another benefit over its rivals: Jamie Dimon. Dimon has been
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