How resilient are high-skilled, white-collar workers? We address this question by exploiting a uniquely comprehensive dataset of individual-level resumes of bank employees and the setting of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. The results reveal that the disruption had no effect on long-term career trajectories, except for senior management. By 2019, former Lehman Brothers employees were 2% more likely to have experienced a break from employment and 2.5% more likely to have left the financial services industry than employees at other multinational investment banks-but these effects concentrate among senior individuals, such as managing directors, or routine workers, such as secretaries. The adverse effects are entirely absent for banking analysts and associates. Furthermore, in terms of subsequent career growth, analysts and associates of Lehman Brothers fare no worse than their counterparts at non-disrupted banks in terms of both (i) achieving high-ranking positions, and (ii) the compensation of their subsequent job positions. These results contrast with the extensive evidence of large, persistent negative effects of displacement on blue-collar workers, highlighting a novel source of income-related inequality.