Bankers caused the crash of 2008. They did not foot the bill. Accountability is in short supply.
How can one justify salaries in the finance sector other than it is what the market will pay?
The numbers being bandied around in this thread must be poisonous to the vast majority of people who work hard and can only dream of such monetary wealth -thank goodness Switzerland is more egalitarian than the UK.

The gini coefficient is the best way of measuring how advanced a society is.

Sounds as if you're bitter that you don't get to underpay other people for their time.

Tough luck. Very very tough.
Profit for the people who employ them isn't the same as value created. If they save their employer £1'000'000 in taxes that's obviously a massive gain for them, but that gain comes at the public's cost. For society this is a zero-sum game. No value got produced, it's just a transfer (or lack thereof, if for instance taxes were avoided).

Very much the same applies to most of the financial sector's forms of trading. Most always there's a counterparty where one side's gain balances the other side's loss or forsaken gain.

If they make £50,000,000 profit for the Bank, the bank pays them £5,000,000, the employee pays roughly £2,250,000 in income tax & the company pays £8,550,000 Corporation tax. Any dividends paid out will likely have further taxation on shareholders depending on their individual situation. National insurance is also paid by the employer & employee

Thats a total £10,800,000 the government gets in tax, which is a MASSIVE benefit to the public.

I don't understand how the company could save any tax, could you explain?