Barclays boss Bob Diamond made £6.3m in 2011 and the chiefs of two taxpayer-backed banks are set for additional multi-million-pound windfalls.
Stephen Hester, Royal Bank of Scotland's chief whose recent £1m bonus provoked a storm of controversy, is set to receive shares from a long-term incentive scheme currently worth £1.6m. RBS's head of investment banking, John Hourican, will receive almost £7.5m sterling in pay, bonus and shares for 2011.
The disclosures from three of the UK's biggest banking groups left City investors deluged with information on pay and bonuses during the day. In the case of RBS, its annual report was released at 4pm.
At Lloyds, Antonio Horta-Osorio is set to be awarded shares worth £3.3m, which will also mature in three years, despite his turning down his bonus after taking sick leave.
The releases fuelled fresh anger that bankers are escaping the worst of the economic storm which is eroding the standard of living of ordinary families.
The head of the British Trade Union Confederation Brendan Barber said Barclays' Bob Diamond's award "epitomises how banks have failed the wider economy and got away with it." Mr Diamond is set to receive shares worth some £4.9m in three years on top of his £1.35m salary despite a fall in the bank's profits and its being among the banks hit by payment protection insurance mis-selling claims.
