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Wells Fargo executives score big raises despite the bank's continued problems

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wells-fargo-pay-20180314-story.html

Wells Fargo & Co. gave multimillion-dollar raises to some top executives in 2017, a year that saw the San Francisco bank continue to deal with the fallout from its unauthorized accounts scandal, ultimately leading to additional strict sanctions from federal regulators.

Chief Executive Timothy Sloan's compensation package totaled $17.6 million, a 35% increase from the $13 million he received in 2016, according to documents filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Last year was Sloan's first full one as CEO. He took over the top spot in late 2016 after former CEO John Stumpf resigned after the bank acknowledged in September 2016 that it might have created millions of unauthorized accounts and agreed to pay $185 million in fines to regulators.

John Shrewsberry, the bank's chief financial officer, made $11.9 million last year, up from $9.3 million in 2016, according to the annual proxy filing. Avid Modjtabai, a senior executive vice president in charge of the bank's payments and online initiatives, made $10.6 million, up from $9.3 million in 2016.

The bank's human resources committee, which reviews executive pay, said it believes the 2017 compensation for top leaders was "reasonable and appropriate," the filing said.

Like other public companies, Wells Fargo this year was required by a new rule to disclose not only the pay granted to top executives but also the pay of the average worker — and to report the ratio of that pay to the CEO's total compensation.

The company's median employee made $60,446 last year. That means Sloan made 291 times as much as the median worker.

For all three executives, the vast majority of their compensation comes in the form of stock awards. Sloan, for instance, took home a salary of $2.4 million and stock awards estimated to be worth $15 million assuming the company meets certain financial goals.

Those awards, while granted in 2017, will vest over several years and can be increased or decreased based on the company's financial performance, while their value could fluctuate with the stock price. So the executives could ultimately earn substantially more or less than the figures reported to the SEC.

Wells Fargo shares are down from a recent high, following a stinging enforcement action from the Federal Reserve announced last month. They closed at $56.63 on Wednesday, down 1.6%.

The Fed, in one of its last acts under now-former Chairwoman Janet L. Yellen, ordered the bank last month to cap its growth and improve its corporate governance to address what Fed officials called "widespread consumer abuses and other compliance breakdowns."

The action came after a year of new revelations, many of them discovered or acknowledged by the bank itself, about bad practices that went beyond the creation of unauthorized accounts.

The bank last year said it had forced some auto loan customers to pay for unneeded auto insurance policies and charged improper fees to some mortgage borrowers. The bank remains under investigation by federal regulators over practices in its wealth management division and other matters.

james.koren@latimes.com

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I'm a lead and now the tellers make 15 an hour while I've been with the company for years and now only make 89 cents more. How can he sleep at night especially when we are the ones handling risk way more than a banker. We are the ones that give those bankers customers to begin with. We handle all the money that comes into the branch but we are treated like crap when the bankers make out far better than us. Every single branch manager and service manager who has been in their position since the scandal broke got that position by gaming. Rumors are the service managers will give up their raises for the leads to make up for the fact that tellers were making 13 and got a 2 dollar raise while we got 51 cents. I am almost to the point where I'll step down to a teller so I'm only responsible for my cash and customer interactions. As a lead I am responsible for my transactions as well as the tellers. Sloan should be ashamed of himself. He says that we are the most important to the company yet when it comes to compensation we get paid like we are the least valuable asset. I'm waiting to find out if my branch will close and will take the severance and unemployment

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Post ID: @bqtt+Sc8Q8Vf

Tim Sloan should be out on his phony a$$. There is no way he was not involved in the fake account scandal in his role as COO. And if he wasn't aware, he should be fired for THAT.

I can't watch any more of his folky town halls where he and his henchmen sit there whirling like dervishes as they spin the "building better every day", "making it right for our customers", and "full transparency" cr*p that was written for them by some PR hack, and vetted by a phalanx of lawyers to ensure they don't say anything they might be held to. The obscene raise he just received is the last straw. Management at Wells could not possibly care less about employees. Cut, cut, cut, and outsource as they line their own pockets, and not one of them loses a nanosecond of sleep over it.

It didn't used to be this way. Years ago PACA actually meant something. Now I am embarrassed to work for Wells Fargo, and am counting the weeks to my retirement.

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Post ID: @1yrf+Sc8Q8Vf

Lucky to receive 1% will a very reduced bonus. I don’t how Mr. Sloan can sleep at night. He and his Executive Management Team are responsible for this mess. We are working diligently to complete every single clean project they give us. I bet you zero to none they projects are not even correct. Why is the Bank responsible for his private security system? Isn’t that a personal expense? After all the money he has made and he can’t even pay $87K for a security system? It should be loose change for him. I can’t even watch videos of the executive team lecturing us on being honest and doing the right thing. Guess what Mr Sloan I have always been honest and have done the right thing and if I was in your shoes I would forgo my raise and give it to my team members ask my executive to leave then resign.

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Post ID: @1tlw+Sc8Q8Vf

I had a WF manager try to reduce my bonus because i exceeded expectations and therefore he didnt want to pay me money and offered me food to eat instead. For real. WF has a lot of freakazoids and perverts.

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Post ID: @1zfs+Sc8Q8Vf

For the last several years we’ve gotten 1%-1.5% raises. We’ve been told there’s intense pressure to control expenses and that’s all the company can afford. Now we know senior managers see us as s---ers!!!! How could the board approved such substantial pay raises in a year where WF continued be fined, multiple consent orders, and terrible reputations management? There’s absolutely zero accountability at this company. I’m concerned the longer I continue to work for this place, the more tainted my reputation is and greater challenge of joining an ethical bank.

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Post ID: @tco+Sc8Q8Vf

35% increase? Those of us in the trenches were lucky to see 2%. Nice to know that he doesn't have to work 2 jobs to keep the lights on and food on the table.

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Post ID: @oxm+Sc8Q8Vf

And they weren't fired but got a raise how dirty qas that?

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