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You are being asked: 'Were you happy with your 2005 bonus ?'
And we have used the thousands of responses we have already received to compile a 'Staff Bonus Approval Rating' for each firm.
So far, 52.1% of staff who responded to our survey said that they were happy with their last bonus payout.
Here's the latest league table, expressed in terms of a % of staff for each firm who have responded, and indicated that their were happy with their 2005 bonus:
1. Goldman Sachs - 91.2%
2. Credit Suisse - 81.2%
3. JP Morgan - 71.4%
4. Bank of America - 66.4%
5. HSBC Investment Bank - 65.2%
6. Lehman Brothers - 64.3%
7. Deutsche Bank - 63.7%
8. BNP Paribas - 62.4%
9. ABN Amro - 61.7%
10. UBS - 61.2%
11. Morgan Stanley - 59.7%
12. Barclays Capital - 57.1%
13. Panmure Gordon - 51.3%
14. Northern Trust - 49.2%
15. Jefferies & C0 - 47.0%
16. ING - 44.2%
17. DrKW - 36.5%
18. Schroders - 34.8%
19. Merrill Lynch - 29.1%
20. Citigroup - 28%
We also have data for the following firms, but not sufficient to come up with a meaningful bonus approval rating (the sample is too small):
Baring Asset Management
Bear Stearns
Brown Shipley
CIBC World Markets
Eurohypo
Fitch Ratings
Henderson Global Investors
Icap
Insinger de Beaufort
Mitsubishi Securities International
Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets
Royal Bank of Scotland Global Markets
TD Securities
Threadneedle Investments
Wachovia
Williams de Broe
To have your shout about your last bonus, please use the link below:
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