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It's hard to believe today, but from the 1960s to about 1980 workers in finance made little more than those in the rest of the private sector, on average.
But a caveat is warranted here: After workers in finance lose their jobs, they usually receive severance pay for four to six months, so even that data can lag.
Over the last decade the financial sector was the fastest-growing part of the economy, with two-thirds of growth in gross domestic product attributable to incomes of workers in finance.
"Executives, and workers in finance, accounted for 58 percent of the expansion of income for the top 1 percent and 67 percent of the increase in income for the top 0.1 percent from 1979 to 2005," a 2012 paper from the liberal Economic Policy Institute pointed out.
3. Paul Volcker: Head of the Federal Reserve under Presidents Carter and Reagan, Volker had a record (not necessarily common among upper-echelon workers in finance) entirely free of the reproach of venality.
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For example, workers in finance-related jobs in Buffalo make 35percentt less than the national average, Professor Palumbo said; those in New York City, of course, make far more.
Thousands of workers in the finance industry have been relocated from downtown Manhattan to New Jersey or Connecticut.
By 2005, the share of workers in the finance industry with a college education exceeded that of other industries by nearly 20 percentage points.
David Fleming, Unite's national officer, said: "These highly skilled workers in the finance function of the bank can earn as little as £22,500 per year.
China has warned that a large civil disobedience campaign would affect Hong Kong's prosperity - but do workers in the finance industry agree?
The big influx of highly educated workers into finance in the last two decades has been the subject of some national hand-wringing lately.
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