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Are bank bonuses excessive?

Wall Street is getting back to normal. How do we know that? One gauge: measuring Wall Street's health is the amount of bonuses bank employees receive.

Here are just a few numbers that reflect how Wall Street is doing:

  • Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE GS) set aside $16.7 billion dollars for compensation in 2009, just a few dollars short of the record $16.9 billion set in 2007.
  • Each employee at Goldman averages $527,192.00

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Britain is the first country to adopt rules for bank bonuses. Is Wall Street next?

Hat's off to the Brits. Britain is the first country to adopt rules for bank bonuses.

What are these rules? Following a five month consultative period the Financial Services Authority published its final code which is effective January 2010. The codes are very simple and straightforward. They say that bank bonuses can be guaranteed for only one year and not be several times a banker's salary.

The regulator backed away from a proposal that would have required banks to defer bonuses over several years.

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