The fortunes of large financial services companies have improved dramatically from the dark days of the recession, but paychecks for the leaders of those companies still aren’t what they used to be. Compensation at broker-dealers and asset-management firms generally has increased along with the recovering financial markets during the past two years, but it remains substantially below pre-crisis levels, consultants said..
“There’s usually a premium to work on Wall Street, but it’s shrunk,” said Alan Johnson, managing director of compensation consultant Johnson Associates Inc. He characterized last year as “so-so” overall for financial services executives and suggested that the fallout from the financial crisis continues to suppress executive-pay levels.
“Some people still believe that executives in this industry should make very little,” Mr. Johnson said.
Crain’s New York Business / June 16, 2013