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How people got jobs at Morgan Stanley
What 42 people did before they joined Morgan Stanley: where they worked, what they studied, which role they came in through, and how long it took.
42
people in our data got there
62%
had a graduate degree first (of those listing one)
5
typical years since first job
- The most common step right before: from other companies (48%).
- The most common way in was Finance & trading (12% joined in that kind of role).
- Of those who list their education, 62% had a graduate degree before arriving and 6% a PhD.
- The typical person arrived about 5 years after their first job.
- The most common earlier employer: JPMorgan Chase & Co. (12% had worked there).
How Morgan Stanley compares
- 62% had a graduate degree, above the 54% across other banks & Fortune 500 companies, the 2nd-highest of the 15 in our data.
- People arrived about 5 years earlier in their careers than at the typical one of the other banks & Fortune 500 companies (5 vs 10 years since their first job).
Among people who list their education; places with at least 10 such people.
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| People listing education | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Qualcomm | 36 | 69% |
| Morgan Stanley (this page) | 16 | 62% |
| Intel Corporation | 49 | 61% |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 36 | 61% |
| Micron Technology | 25 | 60% |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 20 | 55% |
| AMD | 26 | 54% |
| Dell Technologies | 30 | 53% |
| IBM | 60 | 53% |
| Goldman Sachs | 20 | 50% |
| Citi | 16 | 50% |
| Cisco | 43 | 49% |
| NextEra Energy, Inc. | 41 | 49% |
| Deutsche Bank | 16 | 38% |
| Schneider Electric | 28 | 32% |
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| Median years | ||
|---|---|---|
| AMD | 20 yrs | |
| NextEra Energy, Inc. | 19 yrs | |
| Micron Technology | 16 yrs | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 15 yrs | |
| Cisco | 13 yrs | |
| Qualcomm | 11 yrs | |
| Schneider Electric | 11 yrs | |
| Dell Technologies | 9 yrs | |
| Intel Corporation | 8 yrs | |
| Citi | 7 yrs | |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 6 yrs | |
| Morgan Stanley (this page) | 5 yrs | |
| IBM | 5 yrs | |
| Deutsche Bank | 5 yrs | |
| Goldman Sachs | 4 yrs |
Which role they joined in
Kinds of role with fewer than 5 people are combined into "All other roles".
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| All other roles | 37 | 88% |
| Finance & trading | 5 | 12% |
What they did right before
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| From other companies | 20 | 48% |
| From banks & Fortune 500 | 13 | 31% |
| This was their first listed step | 6 | 14% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
Where they worked before
A person can count under more than one employer.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 5 | 12% |
Education
Among the 16 of 42 people who list their education.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelor's | 6 | 38% |
| Master's | 8 | 50% |
| MBA | 1 | 6% |
| PhD | 1 | 6% |
How much experience they had
Among the 35 of 42 people with an earlier job listed.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| 1-3 years | 10 | 29% |
| 3-5 years | 2 | 6% |
| 5-8 years | 11 | 31% |
| 8-12 years | 8 | 23% |
| 12+ years | 4 | 11% |
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Related
How these numbers are made. From 3k+ public career histories collected for careerladder.fyi (dated jobs, degrees and publications). The collection was built around particular employers, so people who reached well-known tech, AI and finance employers are over-represented: read shares as "among people in this dataset", not as hiring odds. Names are shown only when at least 5 people are behind them; smaller groups are combined into "Other". No individual profile is shown. Updated November 2026.