U.S. Gov't Financial Regulators Earn Tax-Funded Salaries of $225,000-Plus

[Stephanie]

my my...regulating pays pretty darn good.

SNIP:

U.S. currency. (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) – Federal employees at several financial regulatory agencies – including the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – are earning six-figure salaries and taking home bonuses up to $5,000, according to federal records obtained by Judicial Watch. At least 228 such regulators make $225,000 a year.

In comparison, members of Congress make $174,000 a year; the Speaker of the House makes $223,500; and the majority and minority leaders pull in $193,400 a year.

The records, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), show the number of employees at five of the six major financial regulatory agencies.

In addition to the CFPB, the personnel documents come from Wall Street regulatory agencies including the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Treasury Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The forms reveal that hundreds of regulators earn in excess of $225,000 per year, not counting bonus income awarded by some of the agencies.

The CFPB – created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulation law – has hired a dozen employees at more than $225,000 per year, Judicial Watch reported on Tuesday. The massive new financial regulator has also hired a college student intern, paying her $42,036 per year, despite being listed as a “student trainee” in federal records.

The CFTC has 26 employees earning at least $225,000 per year. That agency blocked out most of the data on the forms it released to Judicial Watch. It did not block out the amounts it paid in bonuses, however, revealing that it paid between $400 and $5,000 in cash bonuses to employees making $225,000 per year or more.


U.S. Treasury Department. (AP Photo.)
The CFTC would not release the exact salaries of the employees to whom it gave bonuses but all of the records pertained to employees making $225,000 per year or more.

The OCC reported that it had 85 employees making $225,000 or more, but blacked-out the names of those employees as well as the reasons for paying them such high salaries.

Typically, the agencies reported both the names of its highly paid employees and the legal authority that justified the high salaries.

The Treasury Department reported only two high-salaried employees, choosing also to withhold their names.

The SEC had the most high-salaried employees, reporting that they paid 103 employees salaries of $225,000 per year or more.

In all, the financial agencies reported a total of 228 employees making $225,000 or more per year, not including bonuses.


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[Chris]

So what?

Wall Street ran a $516 trillion dollar derivatives Ponzi scheme THAT DESTROYED THE WORLD ECONOMY.

Why aren't you bitching about that?

 

[Stephanie]

So what?

Wall Street ran a $516 trillion dollar derivatives Ponzi scheme THAT DESTROYED THE WORLD ECONOMY.

Why aren't you bitching about that?

So what eh.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Another "Class Warfare" thread.

You're just jealous.

 

[Stephanie]

Another "Class Warfare" thread.

You're just jealous.

Oh dear, that must be it.

 

[Chris]

Wall Street Salaries Rise 11 Percent Annually, While Other Workers’ Increase By Just 1.8 Percent | Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum re-engineered a chart from the New York State Comptroller’s office showing how, in the last three decades, salaries in New York City’s securities industry have far outstripped those in the city’s other sectors. “Wall Street salaries have risen 11.2% per year, while all other salaries have risen 1.8% per year,” Drum found. In 2010, the average salary for someone in the securities industry was $366,000 while the average private sector salary in another industry was $66,000.

CHART: Wall Street Salaries Rise 11 Percent Annually, While Other Workers' Increase By Just 1.8 Percent | ThinkProgress