Employees at Goldman Sachs International – a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Group Inc that is a rough proxy to the UK and European business of the US investment bank – earned on average more than twice as much as their peers at the rest of the firm last year, according to the company’s accounts for 2010, which were quietly published on Goldman Sachs’ website last week.

The accounts show that Goldman Sachs International paid $4.87bn in pay, benefits and social security payments last year, which works out at an average compensation cost for each of the 5,956 employees and staff equivalents of $818,999 last year.