The credit crunch in context: banking writeoffs per employee

The credit crunch in context: banking writeoffs per employee

Incredible chart porn from Here Is the City (HT Felix), showing how much firms have either written down or lost, per wholesale banking employee:

The breakdown (headcount estimates are Here Is the City’s own):

1. Mizuho Financial Group - $5.5bn in writedowns / credit losses, 2,000 wholesale banking employees, $2,750,000 per employee.

2. Wachovia - $7bn, 3,900, $1,794,872 per employee

3. UBS - $37bn, 22,000, $1,681,818 per employee

4. Citi - $40.9bn, 30,000, $1,363,333 per employee

5. Bank of America - $14.8bn, 20,000, $740,000 per employee

6. Merrill Lynch - $31.7bn, 48,100, $659,044 per employee

7. Dresdner Kleinwort - $3.3bn, 6,000, $550,000 per employee

8. Credit Agricole - $6.9bn, 13,000, $530,769 per employee

9. Barclays Bank / Barclays Capital - $7.7bn, 16,200, $475,309 per employee

10. JPMorgan Chase - $9.8bn, 25,000, $392,000 per employee

11. Deutsche Bank - $7.6bn, 20,000, $380,000 per employee

12. SG Corporate & Investment Banking - $3.9bn, 10,500, $371,429 per employee

13. Morgan Stanley - $12.6bn, 38,050, $331,143 per employee

14. Credit Suisse - $6.3bn, 20,000, $315,000 per employee

15. Lehman Brothers - $6.6bn, 30,000, $220,000 per employee

16. Goldman Sachs - $4.1bn, 30,000, $133,667 per employee

17. BNP Paribas - $1.7bn, 13,000, $130,769 per employee