The six largest U.S. banks, under pressure to keep a lid on expenses, cut 20,065 jobs in the third quarter, according to data posted on the firms' websites. They employed a total of 1.05 million people as of Sept. 30, down from 1.07 million a year earlier.

Bank of America Corp. made the deepest cuts, eliminating 14,345 positions, or 6.3 percent of its full-time workforce, to end the period with almost 215,200 employees. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. increased its full-time payroll by 3,400, or 10.2 percent.

Here are the data (year-on-year change in nominal and percentage terms)

* Goldman +3400 +10.15%

* Wells Fargo +1300 +0.49%

* Morgan Stanley +290 +0.52%

* Citigroup -4000 -1.65%

* JPMorgan -6710 -2.77%

* BofA -14345 -6.25%