Monday, February 23, 2009

Pay on Wall Street plummets to levels akin to Main Street - Federal cap, bonus cuts shrink checks


Posted by Yi-Xin Jin (Lily)


NEW YORK -- With the economy in a meltdown, financial workers everywhere fear layoffs. But even those who keep their jobs might face a far different future than they imagined -- one without the big payouts that have long made Wall Street a beacon for the ambitious and the acquisitive.


Those financial-industry workers still standing after the brutal banking collapses of the past year had to contend with a major slash in bonus pay -- with many losing as much as one-third of their total compensation. Then the Obama administration imposed a pay cap of $500,000 on certain senior executives whose companies receive substantial bailout money.


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