Citadel's $12.2B Year
Citadel Securities posted a record $12.2 billion in trading revenue for 2025 — up about 25% year‑over‑year — and reports show average pay per employee near $2 million, underscoring how lucrative quant roles remain. The scale of those results signals sustained hiring and demand for rapid prototyping, backtesting, and production-level analytics skills in market‑making shops. (benzinga.com) (alpha-maven.com)
Citadel Securities closed the year with roughly $6.5 billion in EBITDA and ended 2025 with about $21.8 billion in trading capital, according to Bloomberg’s reporting. (bloomberg.com) The final three months produced roughly $3.8 billion in net trading revenue and about $1.7 billion in net income, Bloomberg sources said, and full‑year profit was reported near $5.4 billion. (bloomberg.com) In the first half of last year the firm paid roughly $1.55 billion to about 1,700 employees — around $918,000 per head for that six‑month span — a figure eFinancialCareers used to calculate rising per‑capita compensation. (efinancialcareers.com) eFinancialCareers reported compensation per head had risen nearly 9% in that period and estimated a 47% profit margin for the market‑making business during the same timeframe. (efinancialcareers.com) Regional pay splits remain large: eFinancialCareers noted that average London pay plus bonus hit roughly $750,000 in 2024, while the outlet also documented starting packages for some graduate hires near $250,000. (efinancialcareers.com) Independent coverage and industry trackers say the firm has been expanding headcount and recruiting from major Wall Street banks as retained earnings pushed trading capital higher, and Bloomberg added the company has tapped debt markets to fuel that expansion. (livemint.com)
