Traders and clerks react on the floor of the London Metal Exchange in the City of London February 14, 2012.
New data from salary benchmarking site Emolument can shed a bit of light on that question.
Emolument compared the salaries of more than 1,000 directors in a variety of different finance jobs, and put the results together for us.
While the lowest paid finance workers at the director stage of their career earn at least £100,000 ($145,779), the highest paid workers can earn in excess of three times that amount.
Commenting on Emolument's findings, cofounder Alice Leguay said:
The levelling of earnings between banking and buy-side activities for juniors allows them a broader scope when it comes to picking a career path, less defined by the hope of making a push towards the banking bonanza, but rather the added value a job in Private Equity, Venture Capital or other key roles in the industry may bring.
Check out the best paid jobs in Britain's finance industry below.