Finance industry executives earn an annual income, including benefits, grants and bonuses, that can reach over eight million shekels a year.
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I make an eight-figure income annually.
For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.
There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.
How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?
As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.
Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that?