It’s the end of the season. Here’s how the Premier League looks. The annual report season, that is – which allows Financial News to compile a league table showing, in absolute terms, how much the chief executives of the premier investment banks are paid.

It's not an attempt to calculate which chief executives deliver the best value for money - that's a job for an army of academics. What our table shows in simple terms is that the really big money is available on the other side of the Atlantic, with the top six earners all heading American firms.