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#Goldman Sachs raises daily dinner allowance by $5 after complaints

“Goldman Sachs raises daily dinner allowance by $5 after complaints”

Junior bankers at Goldman Sachs may finally be able to afford dinner at Chipotle. But, as of next week, there will be no such thing as a free lunch – or free breakfast at the office.

The Wall Street behemoth has increased its daily dinner allowance to $30 from $25 — two months after The Post reported staff were griping they couldn’t even buy a Chipotle dinner with the stingy stipend.

But the extra $5 comes with the news that employees will once again be on the hook for the cost breakfast and lunch.

“On Monday, April 25, we will transition back to a paid-for meal service for breakfast and lunch, while continuing to support out-of-hours meals and increasing the reimbursable amount for those meals to $30,” the bank said in a memo sent internally.

The meal plan change comes as hard-charging CEO David Solomon and other top officers will reportedly win a share of profits from the bank’s private investment funds — a new payout scheme that could shower Goldman’s top brass with hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Goldman on Tuesday confirmed to The Post that employees working long hours and staying late at the office can now spend $30 on dinner but declined further comment.

This is the first time the bank has increased the stipend since the financial crisis of 2008.

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Bankers at Goldman Sachs now have $30 for a dinner stipend.
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David Solomon has increased the meal stipend at Goldman Sachs to $30.
David Solomon has increased the meal stipend at Goldman Sachs to $30.
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Litquidity, a closely watched blog for the financial set, had compiled comprehensive data on dinner allowances across Wall Street. It found Goldman bankers were stuck in the $25 club alongside overworked peers at lower-tier and overseas banks including Citi, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Credit Suisse and Jefferies.

That’s at the chintzy end of Wall Street. By comparison, Morgan Stanley provides $35 for meals, while at JPMorgan the rate is $30, the survey found.

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Bankers had griped that their stipend didn’t even cover dinner at Chipotle.
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“In February, we called for David Solomon to increase the meal allowance for employees working late, as it was significantly below other banks,” Mark Moran, head of growth and operations at Litquidity, told The Post. “We’re happy to see that he has made the decision to increase his employee’s dinner allowance as GS returns fully to the office.”

Goldman bankers previously griped that they were forced to leg it to local chains like Sweetgreen because the cost of delivery with tip, taxes and fees typically takes the price of a salad or Chipotle bowl past the $25 limit. Some analysts previously had to pool meal orders together and order from the same restaurant in an effort to defray delivery costs.

Analysts and associates complained they were being nickel-and-dimed even as their bosses pulled down millions, sources told The Post. Meanwhile, rampant inflation has sent the cost of Chipotle up 10% over the last year.

Meanwhile, reports that Solomon will take a bigger cut of the bank’s profits comes just days after proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis told Goldman shareholders they should vote against the most recent executive pay package that includes a one-time gift bonus to Solomon.

Glass Lewis said Goldman Sachs’ plan to pay a $30 million one-time bonus to CEO Solomon and a $20 million bonus to Chief Operating Officer John Waldron is “excessive.”

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