Goldman Sachs top City banker Michael Sherwood receives $15.8m share bonus Mr Sherwood, who is also co-chief executive of Goldman Sachs International, and already thought to be Britain's best-paid banker, saw his bonus double to 109,461 shares, worth $15.8m. However, sources told Bloomberg that bonuses would follow the same pattern as last year, with 70pc in shares and 30pc in cash, putting Mr Sherwood on track for a total bonus of around $22.5m. Mr Blankfein, whose $69.7m bonus in 2007 set a Wall Street record, is thought to be on course for a total bonus of about $19m this year. That would make him the best-paid chief executive on Wall Street, ahead of JP Morgan chief Jamie Dimon whose bonus for last year was slahsed in half to $10m after a disastrous trading strategy at its London unit cost the firm $6.2bn. Goldman's profits soared 68pc last year to $7.48bn, as revenues climbed 19pc - the first gain in three years. Total staff remuneration rose 6pc to $12.9bn, with employees receiving an average payout of £250,000, although this marks a smaller percentage of the bank's total revenues than in previous years. Goldman Sachs hit the headlines this week as it emerged the bank planned had considered delaying the payment of deferred share awards from previous years until April 6, when the top rate of income tax falls from 50pc to 45pc. However, the bank decided against the move in the wake of the public outcry after the plan was revealed.