Salary Cap Now Official for Fannie and Freddie CEOs
December 4, 2015
It’s official. With no fanfare or big news headlines, President Obama signed the salary cap legislation limiting the salaries of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac CEOs to $600,000 each, the day before Thanksgiving. There was strong opposition from many, including White House and Treasury officials, against the new multi-million dollar executive compensation packages proposed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency earlier this year. After a pay hike earlier in the year, salaries are now back at the $600,000 cap, previously set by former FHFA Director Ed DeMarco. The bill by Rep. Ed Royce’s, R-CA, to suspend the CEOs’ $4 million annual compensation packages passed out of the House by a 57-1 vote and was followed by a senate version from...