Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein is back on top of the Wall Street heap.
After five years of lagging his rival, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, the Goldman Sachs head honcho is once again rolling in more bonus dough.
Blankfein scored $13.3 million worth of stock awards, compared to the $11.5 million Dimon was granted.
Dimon saw his pay slashed by 50 percent in the wake of the bank’s $6.2 billion “London Whale” trading loss, which came to light in May.
That’s despite the CEO leading the bank to a 53 percent surge in fourth-quarter profits, to $5.7 billion.
JPMorgan said yesterday that it awarded bank co-COO Matt Zames $9.1 million in restricted stock after he helped the bank unwind trades connected to the London Whale.
At Goldman, the stock portion of Blankfein’s bonus was 90 percent higher than the $7 million in shares he was awarded last year.
Goldman reported a 64 percent jump in its bread-and-butter investment banking business revenue in the fourth quarter.
The Goldman boss likely will score an additional $5 million or $6 million in cash.
After factoring in his stock awards and $1.5 million salary, his total haul is closer to $20 million — roughly 30 percent ahead of the total $16.2 million in pay he received last year.
Last year, Dimon was the highest-paid Wall Street CEO, with $23.1 million in compensation, ahead of Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, who was awarded $19.8 million for his 2011 performance.
To be sure, Blankfein’s bonus for 2012 pales in comparison to his record $69.7 million bonus package in 2007 — the largest ever for a Wall Street CEO.