Wages also appeared to tick up, according to the report, though compensation declined when adjusted for inflation.
Ordinarily, when profits decline compensation declines, but at Dewey & LeBoeuf many of the partners with contracts had been promised their full compensation.
But a large portion of Marolt's compensation in recent years has been based on bonuses, which were not affected by the austerity measures and are one reason his overall compensation declined 1 percent compared with the previous fiscal year.
As vice chairman, from 1998 tp 2000, a period during which Mr. Sidgmore said his WorldCom compensation declined along with his responsibilities, Mr. Sidgmore's compensation included stock options on 2.4 million shares.
"Stripping out these two factors, nominal incomes declined at a 5.9% annual rate as compensation declined at a 2.9% pace and most categories of asset income performed abysmally," said Michael Feroli, senior U.S. economist at JPMorgan Chase.
21st Century Fox Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch's overall compensation declined slightly in fiscal 2013, to $28.9 million.
In the third quarter, revenue at Wall Street firms fell 11.2percentt from the previous quarter, Mr. McVey said, but compensation costs declined more, by 14.7percentt.
The latest financial statements from the remaining six of the seven largest firms show that their compensation costs declined by a total of $9.5 billion in the first half of this year, compared with the first half of 2007.
A spokeswoman for Jane C. Pfeiffer, an independent consultant who is the head of J. C. Penney's compensation committee, declined to comment on its chief executive's contract, as did a spokesman for LG&E Energy.
