Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. gave Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein a $9 million all-stock bonus for 2009, about half the award granted by JPMorgan Chase & Co. to CEO Jamie Dimon, even as profit reached an all-time high and the shares doubled.
“This is certainly lower than my best estimate would have been,” said Rose Marie Orens, a senior partners at Compensation Advisory Partners in New York. “There was a very definite decision that they weren’t going to have the discussion be all about them and pay.”