Financial headcounts stabilize in 2009
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After financial firms slashed hundreds of thousands of jobs in 2007 and 2008, the bloodletting slowed in 2009 as major banks rebounded from the financial crisis. Even though firms like Goldman Sachs Group Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co reported billions of dollars in profit, they still did not announce major hiring initiatives.
| Recession layoffs | Headcount (end 2008) | Headcount (end 2009) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank of America | 45,000 | 240,202 | 283,717* |
| Citigroup | 75,000 | 323,000 | 265,000 |
| Goldman Sachs | 4,800 | 34,500 | 32,500 |
| J.P. Morgan | 23,700 | 224,961 | 222,316 |
| Morgan Stanley | 8,680 | 45,295 | 61,388* |
| UBS | 19,700 | 77,783 | 65,233 |
| Credit Suisse | 7,320 | 47,800 | 47,600 |
| Barclays | 9,050 | 152,800 | 144,200 |
| Deutsche Bank | 1,380 | 80,456 | 77,053 |
| Santander | 2,600 | 170,961 | 169,460 |
* Includes additional employees from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney merger and Bank of America’s merger with Merrill Lynch, both of which were completed in 2009 (Steve Eder and Steve Slater)
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