wall street bonuses

Compensation consultants work in the shadows to help Wall Street banks and other financial institutions set bonuses and devise severance packages.

The roiling markets and weak economy are expected to take a toll on the infamous Wall Street bonus, a new report finds.

The proposal would require Wall Street firms to disclose bonus figures to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which could then ban any "excessive" awards.

Wall Street bonuses are likely headed up this year. Are you at all surprised?It's hard to imagine any other industry that could freely hand out whopper bonuses despite being under such scrutiny by regulators and the public.

And yet it happens over and over again on Wall Street.

A new compensation survey described in The Wall Street Journal predicts that Wall Street incentive pay will rise 40% this year.

For those in the fixed-income part of the industry, the increase could be closer to 60%.

Here are some interesting results of a survey I received in my inbox today: eFinancialCareers.com surveyed 1,074 finance professionals in September about their bonus expectations.

Of the group, 83 percent anticipate receiving bonuses this year, while more than one-third of...