US EditionWall Street Banks Are Paying Their CEOs Like It's 2006 Again
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In 2025 the salaries of the bank leaders increased by 22% on average, reaching almost 300 times the salary of the employees. On the podium the CEO of JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup
Leaders from JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Morgan Stanley took home at least 40 million dollars each. In the United Kingdom, amounts varied between 7 million and 17 million euros.
Wall Street's "Wild Bonus" Returns: CEO Compensation Returns to Pre-2008 Crisis Levels - Economic Scenarios
There's a peculiar air in Manhattan, a scent not seen in a long time. It's not the smell of coffee from the kiosks on the corner of Broad and Wall Street, but the decidedly more intoxicating smell of freshly printed dollars. After years of relative abstinence, following the collective trauma of 2008 and the subsequent regulatory purges, the heads of major American banks are once again cashing checks that seem to have come straight from the golde…
No one took home less than $40 million in 2025.
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