165 bank executives being paid over €200k

There are 43 staff at Bank of Ireland earning over €300,000 a year, figures released by the Department of Finance have confirmed.

Of those, 24 had a salary of over €400,000 as of Mar 31. That compares to four people in that wage bracket in AIB as of Dec 2011.

The figures for Bank of Ireland, released by Finance Minister Michael Noonan, show there are 193 people in the bank earning over €150,000. There are 66 whose salaries fall between €200,000-€299,999.