The 2025 Ideal Employer in financial services is JPMorgan
For the third year in a row, JPMorgan has been nominated the Ideal Employer in financial services.
Our Ideal Employer report is now downloadable. It's based on our survey, which received over 15,000 responses from all corners of the financial services world.
For the third-year running, JPMorgan is the most desired place to work in financial services. The bank beat Deloitte and Blackrock to win first place, scoring three times as many votes as Goldman Sachs and five times as many as Morgan Stanley.
The 15,000 people who completed our Ideal Employer survey between March and August chose JPMorgan for two reasons above all others. Firstly, they thought its compensation was superior to rivals. Secondly, they ranked it highly for company culture.
JPMorgan’s position as the bank everyone wants to work for reflects its position in the market. In its 2025 investor day presentation, JPMorgan noted that it ranked first across all three investment banking disciplines – M&A, debt capital markets, and equity capital markets – simultaneously, for the first time ever. It was also number one in global sales & trading revenue. If investment banking is a jungle, JPMorgan is a very big gorilla.
However, JPMorgan wasn’t preferred across all our metrics. For example, it scored poorly for its flexible working policies and wasn’t perceived as positive for employees’ health. Votes are cast by people both inside and outside the firm, including those who haven’t worked there.
JPMorgan’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, has been a vocal critic of work-from-home policies - the bank asked people back into the office five days a week in January this year. Nonetheless, Dimon, who has led the bank for nearly 20 years, and is one of the most respected names in American business, is typically seen as a major reason to join JPMorgan. Aged 69, he is expected to retire in the coming years. How the bank navigates the changing of the guard will define it for years to come.
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