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Lloyd Blankfein's $21m haul makes him the world's best paid banker
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: April 16th, 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/apr/12/goldman-sachs...
Goldman Sachs paid its chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, $21m last year and granted him a further $5m in bonus shares in January. The Wall Street bank handed Blankfein $13.3m (8.7m) in restricted shares and a $5.7m cash bonus on top of his $2m annual salary last year. His total 2012 pay was $9m more than in 2011, and the highest since the $68m he received in 2007, before the financial crisis struck. The payout, disclosed in a filing with the US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), makes Blankfein, 58, the world's best paid banker. Blankfein's top four lieutenants collected a total of $72m in annual pay, bonuses and share options last year. Goldman paid its bankers an average of $400,000 last year, $30,000 more than in 2011. The total pay, bonuses and perks bill to its 32,400 staff came in at $13bn. The payroll figures come after the bank ... reported a near-doubling of full year net profits to $7.5bn. The payouts come despite a senior employee attacking it as "morally bankrupt" and revealing that senior Goldman bankers describe clients as "muppets".
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