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Updated 2026-07-02

Citi layers Analyst to Managing Director on internal C-codes.
The title says AVP; the offer letter says C12. Same rung.

Why this matters

Citi, the corporate parent Citigroup and its Citibank subsidiary, uses one officer-title ladder, Analyst to Associate to AVP to VP to SVP to Director to Managing Director, layered on internal numeric grade codes (C09 to C16). A candidate sees AVP in a title but C12 in an offer letter, and they are the same thing. Citi publishes no official grade table; the mapping and the pay below are commonly reported (levels.fyi and employee forums), accessed July 2026 and are not official Citi data.

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By the numbers
Ladder
Analyst to MD
Officer titles + C09 to C16
Comp range
~$93K to $500K+
levels.fyi, July 2026
Top rung
Managing Director
C16, the rarest grade
2025 MD class
276
Smallest since 2020 (Bloomberg)

The quick answer

What are Citi's job levels and titles?

Citi runs two systems in parallel. The human-readable officer ladder, from junior to senior, is Analyst, Associate, Assistant Vice President (AVP), Vice President (VP), Senior Vice President (SVP), Director, then Managing Director (MD). Layered underneath is an internal system of numeric C-codes, commonly reported as roughly C09 at Analyst up to C16 at Managing Director, so a candidate may see AVP in a title but C12 in an offer letter for the same job. That grade-to-title mapping is commonly reported by employees (Glassdoor, Fishbowl, Wall Street Oasis), varies by business unit, and is not an official Citi grade table. Note this is about Citi corporate job levels, not the tiers of Citi credit cards. Pay here is commonly reported (levels.fyi), accessed July 2026, not official Citi figures, running from about $93K for an entry software engineer to $500K plus for a senior investment banker. levels.fyi has no reliable Managing Director median, so no figure is asserted for MD; Citi instead discloses its annual MD promotion class, 276 in 2025. Scan your resume to see whether its scope language matches the band you are targeting. Scan your Citi resume.

Citi uses two systems that should not be conflated. The one candidates see is the officer-title ladder: Analyst, Associate, Assistant Vice President (AVP), Vice President (VP), Senior Vice President (SVP), Director, and Managing Director (MD). Layered underneath is an internal numeric grade of C-codes, commonly reported as running from about C09 at Analyst to C16 at Managing Director. The mapping between the two, for example AVP to C12 or VP to C13, is commonly reported by employees on levels.fyi and forums like Glassdoor and Wall Street Oasis, varies by business unit, and is not an official Citi grade table.

This guide covers Citi corporate job levels and titles, not the tiers of Citi credit cards, which share the word level but nothing else. Every comp figure here is commonly reported (levels.fyi), accessed July 2026, not an official Citi number. Because the officer titles are shared across lines of business, scope, not title, is the reliable signal of band: an Analyst in banking and an Analyst in technology hold the same title but very different work and pay. Treat every number as a crowdsourced estimate, and note that AVP sits below VP, not above it.

Technology is not a separate title system: Citi tech uses the same officer titles and the same C-codes. A software engineer is hired at C10 or C11 (Analyst grade), then C12 (AVP), C13 (VP), C14 (SVP), and C15 (Director). A notable Citi pattern: below SVP, technology compensation is almost all base salary, with bonus and stock negligible, and the real step-change comes at SVP (industry-reported, eFinancialCareers, 2024). In front-office investment banking the ladder is often stated more compactly as Analyst, Associate, VP, Director, then MD.

Comp data is thinnest and least reliable at the top. levels.fyi shows no clean median for the C15 Director software-engineer band or for Managing Director on any track, so no median is asserted for those rungs. The software-engineer ladder tops around $361K at the C15 band, which is a range top, not a midpoint. For Managing Director the credible signal is not a salary median but the promotion class Citi discloses each year: 276 new MDs in 2025. For any anchor number on a resume or in a negotiation, cite the source by name and date the data as July 2026.

Salary reference

Citi pay by role and C-code,
the sourceable levels.fyi rows.

Commonly reported levels.fyi total compensation for the roles where community data is reliable: the software-engineer ladder mapped to its commonly reported C-codes, the investment banking Analyst, Associate, and VP rows, and the company-wide median. Total compensation means base salary plus bonus plus any stock. The C15 Director software-engineer band shows no clean median, so its row gives the ladder's range top rather than a midpoint, and Managing Director shows no reliable median at all. Every number here is community-sourced, not an official Citi number.

RoleTracklevels.fyi total comp
Software Engineer (C10)Technology~$93K
Software Engineer (C11)Technology~$113K
AVP / Software Engineer (C12)Technology~$131K
VP / Software Engineer (C13)Technology~$163K
SVP / Software Engineer (C14)Technology~$237K
Director / Software Engineer (C15)TechnologyNo clean median; tops ~$361K
Investment Banking AnalystInvestment banking~$158K
Investment Banking AssociateInvestment banking~$282K
Investment Banking VPInvestment banking~$544K
All Citi roles (median)Company-wide~$147K
Managing Director (C16)Any trackNo reliable levels.fyi median

Source: levels.fyi crowdsourced data, accessed July 2026. Not official Citi compensation, and it varies by location, business unit, and year. The C15 Director and investment banking SVP bands show no clean median, and Managing Director shows no reliable median, so see the SVP versus MD section and the MD promotion class rather than a levels.fyi figure for the top of the ladder.

The officer ladder, band by band

Each band: scope, comp,
and the resume signal it expects.

For each band, the officer title, its commonly reported C-code, scope of ownership, and the resume signal the level expects, with commonly reported levels.fyi compensation folded into the signal. Titles are shared across the firm, the C-code mapping is employee-reported and varies by business unit, and all pay is commonly reported (levels.fyi), accessed July 2026, not official Citi data. For the wider hiring picture, start with the Citi resume guide.

Analyst
Analyst

Analyst (C09 to C11, entry)

Scope of ownership

Entry level, commonly the first 1 to 3 years out of undergrad. Owns the modeling, data, and production work behind a deal or a team's output: financial models, comparable analyses, decks, and the underlying spreadsheets. Commonly reported as grades C09 to C11; technology hires software engineers into this same band.

Resume signal & comp

Title reads simply as Analyst; lead with the modeling, transaction, or production work you owned and one quantified outcome. On commonly reported levels.fyi figures, accessed July 2026, a Citi software engineer at the entry (C10) band is around $93K total and an investment banking Analyst is around $158K. Not official Citi figures.

Associate
Associate

Associate (about C11, mainly banking)

Scope of ownership

Mid level, commonly reached by direct post-MBA hire or by promotion from Analyst, and concentrated in investment banking. Owns workstreams end to end: manages the analysts, drives the model and analysis, and is the day-to-day point of contact on execution. Commonly reported around grade C11.

Resume signal & comp

Title reads as Associate; lead with workstreams owned, execution managed, and people coordinated, plus a quantified result. On commonly reported levels.fyi figures, accessed July 2026, a Citi investment banking Associate is around $282K total; in technology the C11 band reads around $113K. Not official Citi figures.

AVP
AVP

Assistant Vice President (C12, first officer title)

Scope of ownership

The first officer title, commonly reported as grade C12, sitting above Analyst and Associate but BELOW Vice President. A junior officer rung: owns a defined process, book, or small team with limited discretion. Despite carrying Vice President in the name, it is entry-level management, not a senior band.

Resume signal & comp

Title reads as Assistant Vice President; lead with the process, book, or small team owned and a measurable delta, framed as a step below full VP scope. On commonly reported levels.fyi figures, accessed July 2026, a Citi software engineer at the AVP (C12) band is around $131K total. Not official Citi figures.

VP
VP

Vice President (C13, mid-senior officer)

Scope of ownership

A mid-senior officer band, commonly reported as grade C13, above AVP and below SVP. Owns deal or desk execution, manages associate and analyst teams, and carries real client and revenue responsibility. At a firm of Citi's size this is a common officer title, not a rare executive one.

Resume signal & comp

Title reads as Vice President; lead with deals or books owned, revenue influenced, and teams managed, not execution mechanics. On commonly reported levels.fyi figures, accessed July 2026, a Citi software engineer at the VP (C13) band is around $163K total and an investment banking VP is around $544K. Not official Citi figures.

SVP
SVP

Senior Vice President (C14, senior management)

Scope of ownership

Senior management, commonly reported as grade C14, above VP and below Director. Runs teams or desks and carries real leadership responsibility. In technology, SVP is the band where total compensation finally decouples from base salary; below it, Citi tech pay is almost all base, with bonus and stock negligible (industry-reported, eFinancialCareers, 2024).

Resume signal & comp

Title reads as Senior Vice President; lead with teams led, desks or books owned, and senior execution below franchise-level origination. On commonly reported levels.fyi figures, accessed July 2026, a Citi software engineer at the SVP (C14) band is around $237K total; the investment banking SVP band shows no clean levels.fyi median. Not official Citi figures.

Director
Director

Director (C15, above SVP, below MD)

Scope of ownership

A distinct senior-leadership rung, commonly reported as grade C15, that sits above SVP and below Managing Director in the corporate and technology ladder. In front-office investment banking the ladder is often stated more compactly as Analyst, Associate, VP, Director, then MD, so Director is the rung just below MD. The exact mapping is employee-reported and varies; some employees map C15 directly to MD.

Resume signal & comp

Title reads as Director; lead with senior leadership, teams and programs owned, and early client-relationship building below MD-level origination. levels.fyi shows no clean median for the C15 software-engineer band, so no median is asserted; the software-engineer ladder tops around $361K at this band as a range top, not a midpoint. Not official Citi figures.

MD
MD

Managing Director (C16, top of the ladder)

Scope of ownership

The most senior professional title and the top of the officer ladder, commonly reported as grade C16 and performance and origination gated. Owns the franchise: senior client relationships, origination, and full accountability for the business. Rarity is the defining feature of the band.

Resume signal & comp

Title reads as Managing Director; lead with revenue owned, client relationships originated, and the franchise carried. levels.fyi shows NO reliable MD median on any track, so no levels.fyi figure is asserted. The credible signal is the promotion class Citi discloses each year: 276 new MDs in 2025, the smallest since 2020 (Bloomberg). Not official Citi figures.

Notes on the comp figures

Citi total compensation is base plus a bonus that grows as a share of pay at senior bands. A notable Citi-specific pattern: below SVP, technology compensation is almost all base salary, with bonus and stock negligible, and the real step-change comes at SVP (industry-reported, eFinancialCareers, 2024), not official Citi data. Investment banking and technology pay diverge sharply at every level, which is why roles are quoted separately in the table above. The C15 Director software-engineer band and Managing Director are not reliably reported on levels.fyi, so no levels.fyi median is asserted for them; the software-engineer ladder tops around $361K at C15 as a range top, not a median, and the credible Managing Director signal is the promotion class, 276 in 2025. All levels.fyi figures are commonly reported, accessed July 2026, not official Citi data, and vary by location, business unit, and year.

SVP

Senior Vice President (C14)

Primary role
Senior management. Runs teams or desks within a business; a senior officer band above VP and below Director and MD.
Scope
Team or desk level. Senior management, not yet the client franchise.
Grade code
Commonly reported as C14 (employee-reported on Glassdoor and Wall Street Oasis, varies by business unit). Not an official Citi grade.
Comp driver
In technology this is where total compensation finally decouples from base salary; below SVP, Citi tech pay is almost all base (industry-reported, eFinancialCareers, 2024). Commonly reported levels.fyi software-engineer median at this band is around $237K, not an official Citi figure.
Rarity
A senior band reached by many strong VPs over time; common relative to MD at a firm of Citi's size.
MD

Managing Director (C16)

Primary role
The top professional title. Owns senior client relationships, origination, and the franchise; the most senior grade on the ladder.
Scope
Franchise or division-wide. Industry-reported, not an official Citi figure.
Grade code
Commonly reported as C16, the rarest grade (employee-reported, varies by business unit). Some employees map C15 straight to MD, another reason to treat the mapping as commonly reported, not fixed.
Comp driver
Bonus-driven and highly variable. levels.fyi shows no reliable MD median, so no levels.fyi figure is asserted; Citi discloses its annual MD promotion class instead.
Rarity
The rarest rung. Citi promoted 276 employees to Managing Director in its 2025 class, the smallest since 2020, following 344 in 2024 (Bloomberg and the Citigroup newsroom). The total standing MD headcount is not disclosed.
  1. 01

    Identify your band by scope, not title

    Citi shares officer titles across divisions and hides seniority in an internal C-code, so place yourself by the scope you own: Analyst owns modeling and production, Associate owns workstreams end to end, VP owns deals or desks and client responsibility, SVP or Director owns senior execution and team leadership, and Managing Director owns origination and the client franchise. Remember AVP (commonly C12) sits below VP, not above it.

  2. 02

    Write bullets at the band's altitude

    Production and modeling for Analyst, owned workstreams for Associate, deals and revenue influenced for VP, teams and senior execution for SVP or Director, and revenue, clients, and franchise ownership for Managing Director. A resume written one band too low reads as the lower level, because neither the shared officer title nor the C-code will correct it.

  3. 03

    Translate scope into numbers

    Attach a denominator to every claim: deal size, revenue influenced, book or portfolio owned, systems shipped, teams managed, or time and quality deltas. Cross-reference commonly reported levels.fyi pay for your target band, accessed July 2026, remembering these are crowdsourced figures, not official Citi numbers, and that the Managing Director median is not reliably reported.

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FAQ

Citi levels FAQ

The questions candidates surface when they cross-reference their experience against Citi's Analyst to Managing Director officer ladder and its internal C-code grades. Answers are byte-identical to the FAQPage JSON-LD, because AI engines that extract HTML and AI engines that extract JSON-LD should not see different text.

What are the levels or grades at Citi?

Citi runs two systems in parallel. The human-readable officer ladder, from junior to senior, is Analyst, Associate, Assistant Vice President (AVP), Vice President (VP), Senior Vice President (SVP), Director, then Managing Director (MD). Layered underneath is an internal numeric grade system of C-codes, commonly reported as running from about C09 at the Analyst level up to C16 for Managing Director. The mapping between the two, for example AVP to C12 or VP to C13, is commonly reported by employees on Glassdoor, Fishbowl, and Wall Street Oasis, varies by business unit, and is not an official Citi grade table. In front-office investment banking the ladder is often stated more compactly as Analyst, Associate, VP, Director, then MD, with AVP and SVP less emphasized. Any pay attached to a level here is commonly reported (levels.fyi), accessed July 2026, not official Citi figures.

What is a C12 or C13 grade at Citi?

C12 and C13 are internal Citi grade codes. C12 is commonly reported as the Assistant Vice President (AVP) band and C13 as the Vice President (VP) band, based on employee reports on Glassdoor, Fishbowl, and Wall Street Oasis. The exact mapping varies by business unit and is not published by Citi, so treat it as a commonly reported convention rather than an official grade table. In broad terms the C-codes climb from about C09 at Analyst through C12 (AVP), C13 (VP), C14 (SVP), and C15 (Director) to C16 (Managing Director). Some employees map C15 directly to Managing Director, which is one reason the mapping should be read as commonly reported and varying, not fixed.

What level is VP at Citi?

VP stands for Vice President, commonly reported as the C13 grade at Citi. It is a mid-senior officer band that sits above Assistant Vice President (AVP, commonly C12) and below Senior Vice President (SVP, commonly C14). Because Citi is a very large firm, Vice President is a common officer title rather than a rare executive one, and many experienced professionals hold it. On commonly reported levels.fyi figures, accessed July 2026, a Citi software engineer at the VP band is around $163K total and an investment banking VP is around $544K, which are not official Citi figures. The C13-to-VP mapping is employee-reported and varies by business unit.

What is the difference between SVP and MD at Citi?

Senior Vice President (SVP), commonly reported as the C14 grade, is senior management: an SVP runs teams or desks and, in technology, is where total compensation finally decouples from base salary. Managing Director (MD), commonly reported as C16, is the top professional title, is bonus-driven and highly variable, and is defined mainly by its rarity. Between them sits Director, commonly reported as C15, a distinct rung above SVP and below MD. levels.fyi has no reliable median for MD, so no levels.fyi figure is asserted for it; the credible MD signal is the promotion class Citi discloses each year. The grade-to-title mapping is employee-reported and varies by business unit, not an official Citi table.

How many managing directors does Citi promote each year?

Citi publishes its annual Managing Director promotion class. It promoted 276 new MDs in 2025, the smallest class since 2020, following 344 in 2024, 304 in 2023, 331 in 2022, and 306 in 2021. Within the 2025 class, roughly 49 percent were in North America and about 28 percent were women, split by unit as 55 in markets, 45 in banking, 40 in wealth, and 33 in services. Sources are Bloomberg and Reuters for 2025 and the Citigroup newsroom for 2024. Citi does not reliably disclose the total standing number of Managing Directors, so any firm-wide MD total should be treated as an estimate rather than an official figure.

Is AVP a senior role at Citi?

Assistant Vice President (AVP), commonly reported as the C12 grade, is the first officer title at Citi. It sits above Analyst and Associate but below Vice President (VP, commonly C13), so it is a junior officer rung rather than a senior one. The name is easy to misread: despite carrying Vice President in the title, AVP is entry-level management, not a senior executive band. On commonly reported levels.fyi figures, accessed July 2026, a Citi software engineer at the AVP band is around $131K total, which is not an official Citi figure. The C12-to-AVP mapping is employee-reported and varies by business unit.

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