Dealmaker Weinberg cracks ranks of best paid executives for 2016

Wal-Mart's Lore, who tops the Bloomberg Pay Index after selling Jet.com to the retail giant

In a year when technology leaders again seized the top spots among America’s highest-paid executives, a scion of Goldman Sachs Group stood out.
 
John S Weinberg, 60, whose surname had been synonymous with the bank for decades, left as co-vice chairman in 2015. A year later he joined Evercore Partners Inc., reaping sign-on awards worth $124 million as of December 31. That placed him third on the Bloomberg Pay Index, a ranking of the best-compensated US executives for 2016.
 
He joins an exclusive club increasingly dominated by bosses at companies that are, at best, just a few decades