Fitch Ratings Glassdoor (2024)

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How credible is Fitch Ratings? ›

Fitch is one of the top three credit rating agencies internationally, along with Moody's and Standard & Poor's. Fitch uses a letter system; the highest rating, AAA, indicates reliable cash flows, while a D rating indicates the company is in default.

The average Fitch Ratings salary ranges from approximately $66,483 per year for Utility Worker to $265,192 per year for Senior Director of Finance. Average Fitch Ratings hourly pay ranges from approximately $16.43 per hour for Corporal to $25.00 per hour for Summer Analyst.

Fitch's credit rating scale for issuers and issues is expressed using the categories 'AAA' to 'BBB' (investment grade) and 'BB' to 'D' (speculative grade) with an additional +/- for AA through CCC levels indicating relative differences of probability of default or recovery for issues.

Fitch Ratings has approximately 3.3K employees as of July 2024. These team members are located across 6 continents, including North AmericaEuropeAsia.

Fitch Ratings provides forward-looking credit opinions, as indicated by its ratings, that reflect its expectations of credit behavior over a range of scenarios.

'B' National Ratings denote a significantly elevated level of default risk relative to other issuers or obligations in the same country or monetary union. 'CCC' National Ratings denote a very high level of default risk relative to other issuers or obligations in the same country or monetary union.

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Fitch Ratings Affirms Goldman Sachs Group at 'A/F1'; Outlook Stable. Fitch Ratings - New York - 31 May 2024: Fitch Ratings has affirmed Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.'s (GS) Long- and Short-Term Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at 'A' and 'F1', respectively, and has affirmed the firm's Viability Rating (VR) at 'a'.

BBB- Considered lowest investment-grade by market participants. BB+ Considered highest speculative-grade by market participants. BB Less vulnerable in the near-term but faces major ongoing uncertainties to adverse business, financial and economic conditions.

How are Fitch Ratings calculated? ›

Key Rating Drivers Qualitative and Quantitative Factors: Fitch's corporate ratings reflect qualitative and quantitative factors encompassing the business and financial risks of issuers and their individual debt issues.

Currently there are only two companies in the United States with an AAA credit rating: Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson.

Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Fitch Ratings as 57% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.93 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty).

Fitch Solutions pay FAQs

The average Fitch Solutions salary ranges from approximately £75,012 per year (estimate) for an Inside Sales to £210,120 per year (estimate) for a Senior Director, Product Management. Fitch Solutions employees rate the overall compensation and benefits package 3.3/5 stars.

Overall, 78% of employees would recommend working at Fitch Ratings to a friend. This is based on 927 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor. How do job seekers rate their interview experience at Fitch Ratings? 55% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Fitch Ratings as positive.

Fitch Ratings has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 861 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there.

MOODY'S adopts all necessary measures so that the information it uses in assigning a credit rating is of sufficient quality and from sources MOODY'S considers to be reliable including, when appropriate, independent third-party sources.

Sovereign Rating Model (SRM) and Qualitative Overlay (QO)

Fitch's proprietary SRM assigns the U.S. a score equivalent to a rating of 'AA+' on the Long-Term Foreign-Currency (LT FC) IDR scale.