Quant trader base
$300,000
Every US filing for the title, at every level
Typical base, US
$250,000 to $300,000
Middle half of filed pay, all quant roles and levels
Trader and researcher interns
$300,000 a year
About $5,770 a week, for the weeks worked
Full-time campus engineers
$200,000 to $300,000
Systems and AI research engineer ads
UK pay per employee
$687,000
2024, all roles and levels
Chicago quant trader, first year
EstimateAbout $255,000 to $450,000
Base plus bonus at every firm, for comparison
Jump Trading is a global trading firm. It trades across asset classes from offices in Chicago, New York, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, Sydney and more.
Jump states one estimated base figure per role in its US ads, and files its US work visas the same way, one figure per position rather than a range. That makes its pay easy to read once you know which ads are live: most of its campus ads for traders and researchers are internships.
How much does Jump Trading pay?
Jump files a base of $300,000 for every quantitative trader position in the US, at every level. Across all its quant roles, the middle half of the base it files is $250,000 to $300,000: $250,000 to $300,000 for researchers and $225,000 to $250,000 for developers.
Because Jump files one figure per position, there is no lower end set at the legal minimum to read around. The table groups the filings by job title, with the middle filing and the full span across levels.
Filed US base salaries, July 2025 to June 2026
| Job title as filed | Median base | Lowest to highest |
|---|---|---|
| Quantitative Trader | $300,000 | $300,000 |
| Quantitative Researcher | $275,000 | $175,000 to $350,000 |
| Software Engineer | $250,000 | $160,000 to $250,000 |
| Quantitative Developer | $250,000 | $200,000 to $250,000 |
The median is the middle filing for the title; the range runs from the lowest to the highest, across every level the firm hires at.
How much does Jump Trading pay graduates?
Jump does not advertise a full-time graduate base for a general trader, researcher or developer role. Its live full-time campus ads are for specialist engineers: $300,000 for AI research engineers and $200,000 to $250,000 for systems engineers. Its campus ads for traders and researchers are internships, at $300,000 a year.
For a graduate trader or researcher, the filings above are the better guide to a full-time base, and the intern rate points the same way.
What does the first year pay in total?
Our estimate for a first-year quant trader, across every firm in Chicago, is $255,000 to $450,000 in base and bonus together. Jump does not publish its bonus. Its UK accounts show that part of what it pays is deferred: short-term deferred bonuses are included in wages.
How does pay grow after the first year?
Through the bonus. In what Jump’s traders, researchers and developers report, the base is the same in every band of experience, so total pay depends on the year’s bonus far more than on seniority.
What Jump Trading employees in the US report, by years of experienceReported
| Experience | Base | Total pay |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | $200,000 | $300,000 to $600,000 |
| 1 to 3 years | $200,000 | $369,000 to $475,000 |
| 4 to 6 years | $200,000 | $360,000 to $425,000 |
| 7 years or more | $200,000 | $450,000 to $500,000 |
Base and bonus that traders, researchers and developers report on public pay sites. Total pay is the middle half of what they report, or both figures where two people report. A single year’s bonus can fall well outside it.
Across every firm in Chicago, our estimate for a quant trader with 4 to 6 years of experience is $345,000 to $930,000.
How much do Jump Trading interns earn?
Jump states intern pay as a yearly base, paid for the weeks worked: $300,000 for quantitative trader and researcher interns, about $5,770 a week, and $250,000 for software engineering interns, about $4,810 a week.
What does Jump Trading pay in London?
About $687,000 per employee in 2024, averaged over every role and level. Jump Trading International Ltd and its subsidiaries employed 288 people on average that year and paid $197.8 million in wages and salaries. At the end of 2024, 128 staff worked in the front office and 172 in the back office.
How does Jump Trading compare with other firms?
The chart compares the graduate base that firms state for general trader, researcher and developer roles. Jump states no such base, so its bar is its intern rate. That $300,000 yearly rate and its $300,000 filed trader base both match the flat $300,000 graduate base at Jane Street, HRT and SIG.
Jump Trading pays its campus trader and researcher interns at a $300,000 yearly rate, level with the highest graduate base in any US ad. This is base pay only: the bonus comes on top, and within a few years it grows to match or pass the base.
- Jump Tradingintern rate$300,000
- Hudson River Trading$300,000
- Jane Street$300,000
- SIG$300,000
- DRW$250,000 to $300,000
- Citadel$235,000 to $300,000
- Citadel Securities$235,000 to $300,000
- IMC$250,000
- Optiver$200,000
- Two Sigma$165,000 to $190,000
- Flow Traders$175,000
The base salary each firm states in its US graduate job ads, September 2026. The bonus comes on top.
How do you get a Jump Trading offer?
Jump hires on three tracks, and each tests something different. Traders face probability, expected value and market reasoning, plus futures and options. Quant researchers face probability, statistics, regression and a close look at their own projects. Software engineers face C++, data structures and low-latency systems.
Probability and expected value run through the trader and researcher rounds, and the interviewers care about your reasoning as much as the number. The interview guide covers each track stage by stage, and the practice page has questions matched to Jump.