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U.S. companies may be paying out big dividends before tax rates rise next year, but for now they’re holding the line with executive bonuses. “Politically it would be a disaster,” said Alan Johnson, CEO of Johnson Associates. CNBC / November 29, 2012 READ ARTICLE

Wall Street bonuses are no longer plummeting, although the “new normal” emerging now is below the industry’s pre-recession heyday. “The revenues of these firms just aren’t good enough. There’s a pretty good alignment between pay and performance,” said Alan Johnson, managing director at consulting firm Johnson Associates Inc. NBC News / November 12, 2012 READ…

Wall Street workers, whose bonuses and year-end incentives fell by as much as 30% last year, will see slightly bigger bonuses and stock awards in 2012. “The recovery in financial services continues to be a struggle, and while incentives will be modestly up, few professionals will have reason to cheer,” says Alan Johnson, managing director…

Wall Street employees, whose paychecks have often been cut in recent years, are likely to get a slight bump in their bonuses this year. The catch: the increase will come on top of one of the worst years for bank pay in recent memory. Year-end incentives, which include cash bonuses and stock awards, will be…

Wall Street pay will bounce in 2012 from last year’s sharply reduced levels, but bonuses will be lower and have more strings attached than before the financial crisis, the latest tally of finance-industry compensation shows. So-called incentive-based pay, which includes cash and stock awards, is set to climb 5% to 10% from a year earlier,…

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s third-quarter results highlight a Wall Street juggling act: how to contain costs amid soft growth and volatile markets without losing highly paid, sought-after workers. The New York company’s investment bank showed a 12% rise in compensation expense in the period ended Sept. 30, to $2.07 billion, while headcount in the…