"Overall, the 2004 bonus season, which effectively ended for the big banks when CSFB handed out checks on Feb. 15, was the best in four years and hewed tightly to salary-plus-bonus expectations set out last fall: MDs made an average of $800,000 to $1.75 million, with really big producers getting up to $4 million or more. Vice presidents raked in between $350,000 and $700,000. Associates straddled the range of $200,000 to $300,000 in total compensation."