(Bloomberg) -- Bank of America cut Chief Executive Officer Brian T. Moynihans pay 7.1% for last year to $13 million after profit dropped by more than half.
Moynihan got $11.5 million in stock grants, the company said Tuesday in a regulatory filing. The board left his salary unchanged at $1.5 million and he received no cash bonus, a person with knowledge of the decisions said, asking not to be identified because the figures werent announced.
Moynihan, 55, spent the year cutting expenses and cleaning up some of the banks biggest legal disputes. Profit slid 58% to $4.8 billion last year as settlements tied to mortgage claims and foreign-exchange manipulation probes fueled two quarterly losses. In August, the company reached a record $16.7 billion deal to end probes into mortgage-bond sales.
The board also reduced equity awards for two of Moynihans deputies, Chief Operating Officer Thomas K. Montag and Chief Financial Officer Bruce Thompson, according to filings Tuesday. Stock comprised the largest portion of their packages a year ago. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank hasnt yet disclosed their salaries and cash bonuses for 2014.
LOZANO'S OVERSIGHT
The boards compensation committee is led by Monica C. Lozano, chairman of U.S. Hispanic Media Inc., a Spanish-language publisher. Payouts for Moynihan, who was named chairman in October, and other senior leaders may ultimately change because some awards are in restricted stock linked to the firms future performance.
Bank of Americas shares rose 15% last year, beating the 13% advance for the 85-company Standard & Poors 500 Financials Index.
Figures disclosed so far suggest Moynihan will continue to be out-earned by Montag, who runs the firms investment-banking and trading businesses. Montag has been paid more than his boss for four straight years, receiving $15.5 million a year ago.
There was no raise last month for JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, whose pay had almost doubled to $20 million a year earlier. Instead, the board included a $7.4 million cash bonus in his package, his first such reward since 2011.
Goldman Sachs Group also boosted the cash portion of Chairman and CEO Lloyd C. Blankfeins bonus. That component, $7.33 million, accounted for a third of the bonus in his $24 million package this time, up from 30%. The bank hasnt yet said whether hes getting a long-term incentive that amounted to $6 million last year.
GAINING POWER
Morgan Stanleys board included a $4.44 million stock bonus in James Gormans package for last year, a 13% cut as the firm gives employees a greater portion of their pay in cash. The bank will disclose his cash bonus and long-term incentives later this year.
Moynihan, an Ohio-born lawyer who rose through the ranks at FleetBoston Financial Corp. before Bank of America bought it, outlasted other executives in late 2009 as talks fell apart with CEO candidates from firms including Bank of New York Mellon Corp. He gained the chairman title after spending much of his time as CEO, and more than $70 billion, dealing with the fallout from his predecessors acquisitions of Merrill Lynch & Co. and Countrywide Financial. Bank of America is now the nations second-biggest bank by assets.
Moynihan won Federal Reserve approval in August to boost the companys dividend to 5 cents a share, from the token 1-cent payout it had in place since 2009. A proposed increase earlier last year was postponed because the lender mistakenly inflated capital levels by $4 billion.
Montag got $7.8 million in stock for 2014, compared with $8.7 million for the previous year. Thompson got $5.9 million, down from $6.7 million in 2013. Their total pay, which has included cash bonuses in the past, typically isnt disclosed until an annual proxy filing later this year.
Hugh Son is a reporter for Bloomberg News.
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