The average American worker earned about $50,000 last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. "If these people have talents that justify those levels of compensation and Feinberg tells them you can’t have it because you’re at Citigroup or Bank of America, the next thing you know they’ll be working at Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan Chase" said Richard Sylla, an economic and financial historian at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business in New York. Full Article at Bloomberg.com