Originally Posted by SayAlt

To me, the pay is a secondary issue. Given the current environment, and the $5,000,000,000 stock buyback program which will further enrich RA who owns 17.9 MILLION shares of co. stock, it would be absolutely LUDICROUS for the new TA not to have an increase in pay. This is ESPECIALLY true when you consider that we are simply gaining BACK...in large measure...what was given in C2012 and before.