Americans with savings invested on Wall Street have had a bumpy ride over the past year. Most share prices have at best stagnated since last spring. But that ride has been considerably smoother for the power suits who run the nation’s six biggest banks. This infographic originally appeared in Too Much, the Institute for Policy Studies commentary on excess and inequality. Click to www.toomuchonline.org for more.

1. Americans with savings invested on Wall Street have had a bumpy
ride over the past year. Most share prices have at best stagnated
since last spring. But that ride has been considerablysmoother for
the power suits who run the nation’s six biggest banks.
Sources: Institute for Policy Studies, Off the Deep End: The Wall Street Bonus Pool
and Low-Wage Workers, March 2016. Fortune magazine, March 2016. Shutterstock.
The Sunny Side of a Fabled Street
Bank of America
CEO Brian
Moynihan’s
2015 pay:
up $3 million
The CEOs at
America’s top
banks last year
made 455times
more than average U.S. workers.
The CEOs at Goldman
Sachs, JPMorgan Chase,
Morgan Stanley, Wells
Fargo, Bank of America,
and Citigroup saw their
pay jump just under
10 percent in 2015.
Sharing the wealth,
Wall Street-style
Total 2015 bonuses
for Wall Street’s 172,400
employees $25 billion
Annual earnings
of all 895,000 full-time U.S.
minimum-wage workers
$12 billion