Question of the Week: Are PE Execs Overpaid? -- UPDATED

Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool. This week FINS reported that buyout shops are raiding investment banks for relatively inexperienced analysts. Buyout shops typically pick up execs from two-year analyst programs at IBs. But this year, PE firms are scooping up candidates less than a year after they graduate from college, according to FINS. These fresh grads are getting good money. Recent offers for analysts guarantee $220,000 to $250,000 a year, though highly coveted workers are getting more than $300,000, FINS says. This made me wonder: With lower-tier employees taking home such big paychecks, how much are PE executives making? Stephen Schwarzman, the Blackstone Group's chairman and CEO, earned