Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Executives at seven bailed-out companies including Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. will have their pay cut by an average of 50 percent after negotiations with Kenneth R. Feinberg, the U.S. special master on compensation, two people familiar with the matter said.
The cash portion of salaries for the 25 highest-paid employees will be slashed 90 percent, according to a person familiar with the plan who spoke anonymously because the details havenÂt been announced. Some cash will be replaced by shares that employees will be restricted from selling immediately, the same person said. An announcement could come this week.
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25 x 7 = 175 people will be affected. Feinberg's destroying the American Economy!!!!11!! :-/
USAToday has a flash graphic of executive compensation in 2007 - http://www.usatoday....eo-comp/flash.htm
E.g. Pandit at Citigroup made a $250k salary, $0 bonus, and $2.9M in stock and options awards.
They're not going to be hurting, not one bit.
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.