Goldman Sachs Ranked #1 Banking Employer for Eighth Straight Year, Says Vault

Business Wire, August 31, 2007

Rankings Appear in Latest Edition of the Vault Guide to the Top 50 Banking Employers

NEW YORK -- Career publisher Vault Inc. (www.Vault.com) has just released its guide to the nation's top banking employers, and Goldman Sachs ranks first overall in prestige. This is Goldman's eighth consecutive year in the top spot.

A record 999 industry professionals took Vault's Banking Survey between January and March of 2007. Participants were asked to rate banking companies on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most prestigious. Vault averaged the prestige scores for each firm and Goldman Sachs ranked #1.

The top 10 companies as ranked in the Vault Guide to the Top 50 Banking Employers are as follows:

1. Goldman Sachs & Company New York, NY

2. The Blackstone Group New York, NY

3. Morgan Stanley New York, NY

4. Lehman Brothers New York, NY

5. JPMorgan Investment Bank New York, NY

6. Merrill Lynch New York, NY

7. Citi Markets & Banking New York, NY

8. Lazard New York, NY

9. Credit Suisse Investment Banking Division New York, NY

10. UBS Investment Bank New York, NY

In addition to rating peer firms on prestige, respondents were asked to rate their own firms on various quality of life issues such as hours, salaries and overall satisfaction. The Vault Guide to the Top 50 Banking Employers also features a profile of each ranked bank that gives readers an insider view of what it's like to work there.

The Vault Guide to the Top 50 Banking Employers is available at bookstores nationwide or by ordering through Vault.com. To order online, please click here.

About Vault Inc.

Vault is the leading media company focused on careers. Vault offers over 120 nationally distributed books and a celebrated online resource, www.vault.com -- which offers surveys and "insider" information on more than 4,500 employers, 4,000 colleges and universities, and hundreds of industries and occupations -- as well as the much-praised Electronic WaterCooler[TM], the Internet's first-ever network of message boards for professionals with nearly 2,000,000 searchable posts. Vault was founded in 1996 by Hussam Hamadeh, Samer Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman.