Want to know what your (less discreet) investment banking peers are making in these troubled times?
Fashion meets Finance, the social service that aims to match attractive but relatively poor women with relatively unattractive but rich finance professionals correct gender imbalances between New York bar scenes, is holding their next event on January 22nd and attendees have RSVPd — with their salary details.
The list is available here.
Mega earners include:
Jay Bauer of TD Bank and Jay Hardington of D***** Bank (we assume he means Deutsche) with self-reported incomes of $300,000-$499,999 a year. Citigroup’s Tim Neger, however, leads the pack with a reported salary of $500,000 — handily beating his Citi colleagues John Albright and Troy Slade .
Pity, however, must go to Jonathan Watras, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, who’s making “under $50,000″ a year. Nevertheless, his application was accepted by the FMF, unlike Shin Sho, who makes more at his purported job as a Nike factory worker. Indeed, the disdain for non-finance professionals is intense.
To wit, FMF’s latest missive to Wall Street — a letter that’s likely to rile even the most capitalist (or should that be socialist?) of US taxpayers.
Dear Wall Street,
Life may be tough, and your industry might be crumbling, but what you need to realize is that the implications of this crisis for the rest of New York society are even more intense. You Bankers are the core of our ecosystem, the top of the food chain. And when there are less lions hunting, the natural balance is destroyed and next thing you know advertising guys are picking up tens at 1Oak buying drinks from the bar. Pathetic. Without you, there’s chaos, and hot women don’t know where to turn. In the next year there will be too many hot girls that were supposed to marry bankers making the life-long decision to settle with consultants, accountants, and lawyers? Its unnatural and unfair…
Fortunately, this note is both a plea and an invitation. We would normally look to you to solve all our problems for us, but, in true Nationalized America spirit, it’s the government that is helping address this more significant, social aspect of the economic downturn. As part of the mysteriously allocated $700B bailout package, funds have been appropriated to FashionMeetsFinance to help bail Wall Street out, emotionally.
On January 22nd, we will be celebrating finance. With expensive whiskeys, truffled everything, and, most importantly, beautiful girls from the fashion industry, we will remind you what it truly means to be a financier. You will reassert your crucial role in New York City’s pecking order, and even though Broad & Wall is about as dry as the homeland of some dude in IT, you will make it rain. Order will be restored.
Things may be tough right now, but we’re rooting for you Wall Street. Keep the brand alive.
Sincerely,
FashionMeetsFinance
HT the very funny LOLFed.
Related links:
Of Citigroup and sandwiches – FT Alphaville