Below are the average and median sign-on bonuses at top business schools:
| School | Average Sign-on Bonus | Median Sign-on Bonus |
| IMD | $23,000 | $20,250 |
| London Business School | $23,054 | $23,745 |
| Harvard (HBS) | $17,385 | $15,000 |
| INSEAD | | $15,000 |
| Stanford (GSB) | $16,400 | $15,000 |
| MIT (Sloan) | $14,451 | $10,000 |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | $16,803 | $15,000 |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | $14,380 | $15,000 |
| UC Berkeley (Haas) | $12,824 | $13,000 |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | $17,000 | $15,000 |
| Duke (Fuqua) | $15,183 | $15,000 |
| Columbia | $17,363 | $20,000 |
| UCLA (Anderson) | $15,621 | $15,000 |
| NYU (Stern) | $19,767 | $20,000 |
| Yale (SOM) | $16,061 | $15,000 |
| Chicago (GSB) | $15,832 | $15,000 |
| Michigan (Ross) | $16,466 | $15,000 |
| Carnegie Melon (Tepper) | $12,550 | $10,000 |
| Virginia (Darden) | $10,936 | $10,000 |
| Cornell (Johnson) | $15,500 | $15,000 |
| UNC Chapel-Hill (Kenan-Flagler) | $14,163 | $12,500 |
| Emory (Goizueta) | $12,886 | $10,000 |
| Texas (McCombs) | $12,281 | $10,000 |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | $12,638 | $11,500 |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | $10,081 | $10,000 |
| Washington U (Olin) | $9,444 | $10,000 |
| Indiana (Kelley) | $12,068 | $10,500 |
| Purdue (Krannert) | $12,552 | $12,000 |
| USC (Marshall) | $12,388 | $10,000 |
| Washington | $13,327 | $10,831 |
| Maryland (Smith) | $11,261 | $10,000 |
| Babson (Olin) | $11,460 | $10,000 |
| Vanderbilt | $11,301 | $10,000 |