Sunday, November 2, 2008

Goldman Sachs ready to hand out £7BILLION salary and bonus package... after its £6bn bail-out

Goldman Sachs ready to hand out £7BILLION salary and bonus package... after its £6bn bail-out | Mail Online:

"Goldman Sachs is on course to pay its top City bankers multimillion-pound bonuses - despite asking the U.S. government for an emergency bail-out.

The struggling Wall Street bank has set aside £7billion for salaries and 2008 year-end bonuses, it emerged yesterday.

Each of the firm's 443 partners is on course to pocket an average Christmas bonus of more than £3million.

The size of the pay pool comfortably dwarfs the £6.1billion lifeline which the U.S. government is throwing to Goldman as part of its £430billion bail-out.

As Washington pours money into the bank, the cash will immediately be channelled to Goldman's already well-heeled employees. "



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