12,420 live MBA-track roles, pay by function, a Berkeley Haas deep dive, and the round deadlines that just posted.‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 
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MBA Guidance · Rome Thorndike, Berkeley Haas MBA
12,420
Live MBA roles
$184K
Avg M7 pay
150
Schools tracked
Weekly admissions and outcomes intel · Week of 2026-09-07
Who’s hiring post-MBA right now
Salaried, MBA-track roles posted in the latest scrape. Pay is the posted midpoint, a directional signal, not a guaranteed offer.
JPMorgan Chase
Client Manager - Small Cap Investment Banking Group - Executive Director · Chicago		 $287K
Amazon
Principal Product Manager - AI & Cloud Media Services, AWS Elemental Media Services, Elemental Media Services · Seattle		 $245K
Deloitte
Real Estate Strategy & Operations Senior Manager · Remote		 $254K
Google
Product Manager Lead, AI Hardware, Google Distributed Cloud		 $286K
EY
EY-Parthenon - Strategy and Execution - Deal Management - Director · New York		 $227K
Accenture
Strategy Principal Director for Technology & AI-Native Companies		 $269K
Pay watch, by function
Median disclosed comp across all posted seniorities in each function this week. Treat as the shape of the market, not a starting-salary quote.
Consulting
$122K (2609 live)
Finance
$152K (689 live)
Product
$166K (2507 live)
Marketing
$120K (2555 live)
Strategy/Ops
$132K (4060 live)
The numbers, right now
Where the medians actually sit at the M7. Straight from our database, no rounding for the brochure.
SchoolGMATAcceptAvg payPlaced
Stanford GSB 738 6.9% $192K 95%
Harvard Business School 740 11% $195K 94%
Wharton 733 18% $185K 96%
Booth 730 21% $180K 95%
Kellogg 727 20% $175K 94%
Columbia Business School 729 15% $180K 93%
MIT Sloan 730 12% $178K 94%
School spotlight
This week: Berkeley Haas. 726 median GMAT, 12% acceptance (highly selective), $175K median starting pay, 93% employed within three months. Full profile.
Deadline radar
Each row shows that school’s most recently published round deadlines. Rows marked * are the prior (2025-26) cycle, shown for timing reference; we update each school the moment its 2026-2027 dates post.
SchoolCycleR1R2R3
Stanford GSB * 2025-26 Sep 9, 2025 Jan 7, 2026 Apr 7, 2026
Wharton 2026-27 Sep 8, 2026 Jan 5, 2027 Mar 31, 2027
Booth * 2025-26 Sep 16, 2025 Jan 6, 2026 Apr 2, 2026
Kellogg * 2025-26 Sep 10, 2025 Jan 7, 2026 Apr 1, 2026
Columbia Business School 2026-27 Sep 9, 2026 Jan 5, 2027 Mar 29, 2027
One honest take
Look at the pay-watch bars against the live counts next to them. Strategy, operations, and consulting post the most roles, but product, with far fewer openings, pays the most per seat. The best-paying post-MBA lanes are the narrow ones, not the wide ones. So if your plan is “get into a top program, then figure out recruiting,” you have the order backwards. Pick the lane first, then pick the school that actually feeds it.
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Berkeley Haas MBA · MBA Guidance
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