Pay packages for many top executives have ballooned in recent years, even as corporations have laid off tens of thousands of workers.
Pay packages for senior staff outside the banking sector have also come in for criticism during the recession.
Pay packages for 1993 have not yet been reported.
Do heavier packages pay?
Franz Müntefering, the labor minister, is also demanding a new minimum wage law that would add to pay packages in the service sector.
But pay packages like that are more the exception than the rule these days, as many bankers suddenly are clinging tightly to their jobs.
Even then, they must pay the laid-off workers large packages of benefits.
"Many other places don't pay the generous benefit packages we pay."
Pay packages in London are rivaling those in New York.
The university gave each of them pay packages worth roughly $150,000 and relieved them of having to fret about making ends meet.