{"id":21647,"date":"2026-02-14T00:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=21647"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:57:24","slug":"bank-of-america-lifts-moynihans-pay-17-to-41-million-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=21647","title":{"rendered":"Bank of America lifts\u00a0Moynihan\u2019s\u00a0pay 17% to $41 million for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2256963362-e1771022592143.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bank of America Corp. raised Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan\u2019s pay to $41 million for 2025, a year in which the second-largest US bank improved its profit but stock performance fell short of peers.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The board granted Moynihan an unchanged base salary of $1.5 million and no cash bonus, \u201cconsistent with prior years,\u201d along with equity incentive awards totaling $39.5 million, according to a regulatory filing Friday. A year ago, Moynihan\u2019s compensation was increased 21% to\u00a0$35 million after the bank was able to boost its earnings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moynihan\u2019s new pay package follows a year in which Bank of America reported net income of $30.5 billion, up 13.1% from 2024. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender is focused on increasing revenue while also keeping expenses in check, using technology, including artificial intelligence, to contain costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In determining Moynihan\u2019s pay, the bank said its board acknowledged his \u201cleadership in driving growth for shareholders,\u201d including \u201cdisciplined expense management,\u201d according to the filing.<\/p>\n<p>Moynihan, one of the longest-serving heads of a large US bank, has signaled his interest in staying on for years to come. The 66-year-old CEO steered the lender through the pandemic after taking the helm 16 years ago in the wake of the global financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Under Moynihan\u2019s leadership, the firm set a slew of new financial targets at its first investor day in almost 15 years. The goals, which included a pledge to keep a firm grip on spending, were outlined in a bid to boost shares that have trailed those of other large US banks.<\/p>\n<p>Bank of America\u2019s larger rival, JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co., increased CEO Jamie Dimon\u2019s compensation 10.3% to\u00a0$43 million\u00a0for 2025. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid its leader, David Solomon, $47 million for his work in 2025, up 21%. Morgan Stanley boosted CEO Ted Pick\u2019s pay 32% to $45 million, while Wells Fargo &amp; Co. raised Charlie Scharf\u2019s compensation 28% to $40 million and Citigroup Inc. paid Jane Fraser $42 million, a 22% increase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Bank #America #liftsMoynihanspay #million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of America Corp. raised C&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[301,200,3160,13026,913],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}