Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Shareholders in the securities industry are having their worst year since 2002, losing $74 billion of their equity. That won't prevent Wall Street from paying record bonuses, totaling almost $38 billion. That money, split among about 186,000 workers at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bear Stearns Cos., equates to an average of $201,500 per person, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The five biggest U.S. securities firms paid $36 billion to employees last year. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ahE8xVisWsbE&refer=home
The top 10,000 earners will take 30 billion out of that pie, leaving about 6 billion for the other 176,000 Wall st. Gimps. Wall St. Rocks!!!