Axios Visuals Wall Street bonuses surged 32% last year, as the country's top financial firms paid out a record $47.5 billion to their most successful employees, New York's comptroller said Wednesday.

Wall Street’s bonus pool hit a record high last year ... number swell to a whopping $47.5 billion in its first major surge since the coronavirus pandemic. That is up 34% from last year ...

The last time Wall Street saw a comparable bonus surge was in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, when market volatility and deal volume also led to outsized performance-related compensation.

Average Wall Street bonuses surged last year, with the total pool for payouts jumping to a record $47.5 billion as industry profits soared. In today's Wall Street Beat, Bloomberg's Sridhar ...

Sridhar Natarajan, chief Wall Street correspondent at Bloomberg ... "That 31.5 percent bonus surge reflects a banner year for investment banking fees in 2024—driven by optimism that markets ...

As Wall Street’s profits rose, the industry’s bonus pool hit ... bump in the average bonus estimate since 2021,” it said in a release. Alongside the surge in bonus allocations, employment also reached ...

Wall Street accounts for a larger chunk of NY tax revenue than any other industry — so the stock market’s rollercoaster ride ...

Wall Street’s top banks JP Morgan ... DiNapoli revealed that Wall Street banker bonuses rose 31.5% to an average of $244,700 last year, thanks to a surge in dealmaking as interest rates fell.

Wall Street’s bonus pool hit a record high last year as fatcat bankers ... financiers saw the annual number swell to a whopping $47.5 billion in its first major surge since the coronavirus pandemic.