HUFFPOST BUSINESS Two Charts That Will Enrage Everyone (Well, Except Bankers) Maxwell Strachan: March 13, 2014 Take every single dollar made by full-time workers earning the federal minimum wage last year. Now double that pile of cash. OK, now we're in Wall Street bonus territory. Wall Street pulled in $26.7 billion in cash bonuses last year, according to estimates revealed Wednesday by the New York state comptroller. That's up about 15 percent from the previous year, and amounts to $164,530 per person when split up among the industry's 165,200 employees in New York. In a new report the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think-tank that advocates for pay fairness, paints those bonuses in a rather startling way: Wall Street's cash pile is now nearly double what the country's 1.085 million full-time minimum wage workers made all of last year. Wall Street Bonuses Far Exceed Earnings of All Full-time Minimum Wage Workers $26,700,000,000 $15,134,665,000 Wall Street bonuses for 165,2O0 employees Annual earnings of all 1O85,000 full-time minimum wage workers Source: Institute for Policy Studies analalysis of New York State Comptroller and BLS data. Mace of 2 EFTA01195727