Christmas is looking especially rich this year on Wall Street.

• Total Wall Street bonuses this year: $23.9 billion.
• Change from last year: +17%
• What the top “golden 25″ execs at Goldman Sachs will get as bonus: approximately $25 million each.
• How much Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns are giving out: an amount equal to $300,000 per employee (distributed only to a privileged few in the company, of course.)
• Morgan Stanley CEO’s bonus: $40 million in stocks and options.

And:

• Average salary of New Yorker working outside Wall Street: $56,634 in 2005.

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