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AMD (AMD) CEO Dirk Meyer made $4.6 million last year as his company made a profit, but only because of a legal settlement with Intel (INTC) over antitrust matters. The money probably should have gone...
Average: “an estimation of or approximation to an arithmetic mean”–Webster Burger King (BKC) is the perennial also-ran in the fast food market in which its runs well behind McDonald’s...
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) is going to get hear more criticism over the notion that it creates so many millionaires.  Compensation has been an issue since about half way through the...
Boeing (NYSE:BA) sent out 1,025 60-day layoff notices, most of them to workers in its Engineering, Operations, and Technology unit. The action was part of Boeing already-disclosed 10,000 employee...
Everyone wants to know about Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) and how much it is going to pay CEO and Chairman Lloyd Blankfein, following a $100 million bonus being paid to what Main Street now...
The trend begun by Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) to pay bankers and management generous bonuses has begun to move to other financial firms. AIG (NYSE:AIG) said it had been able to get back only $20 million...
The Times of London wrote that Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) CEO Lloyd Blankfein would be paid $100 million for his work as the head of the bank during 2009. Goldman’s public relations staff denied the...
Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) may finally be getting some added pay regulation.  After regulators and politicians have gone after Wall Street compensation, House Republicans...
Andrew Cuomo, current attorney general and either future governor of New York State or US Senator, decided to force eight large banks that received TARP money to disclose their employee...
A number of the top bankers from firms including Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), and JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) will testify before the The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission which has...
Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) CEO Ken Lewis is gone now, but the culture of big pay packages established on his watch is not. The bank will pay large bonuses for 2009 to many of its top traders and...
Customers, employees, shareholders, and taxpayers hate large corporations for many reasons. 24/7 Wall St. has looked at many of these issues to choose the 15 most hated companies in America. We...
American International Group has done what it could to keep top talent around at the company, and it has been able to get at least some exceptions on the restriction of pay that is being imposed on...
Pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, has been fairly consistent in giving only bare-bones compensation to management at firms that have taken TARP funds. Most executives are making less than $500,000 in base...
Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), is doing fine, financially. He took a salary of just $1 last year but owns 5.546 million Apple shares. The stock trades above $200, so Jobs has over $1...