The average Wall Street salary rose 13 percent last year to its highest level since 2008, when Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed.

Annual pay, including bonuses, in New York City’s securities industry rose to $422,500 on average in 2017, New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli said in a report Monday. Salaries gained as pretax profits rose 42 percent to $24.5 billion last year. In the first half of 2018, the earnings totaled $13.7 billion, up 11 percent from a year earlier, he said.

“Wall Street has profited every year since the end of the recession in 2009, and compensation last year reached its highest point since the financial crisis,” DiNapoli said in a statement. “The momentum from last year’s dramatic rise in profits has carried into 2018 and the industry is on track for another good year absent a setback later in the year.”

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Wall Street is on pace to add 1,700 jobs this year, based on trends from the first half. The industry added 10,600 jobs in the city from 2010 to 2017, bringing employment to 176,900. Even with those gains, the industry is still 6 percent smaller than before the financial crisis. Bonuses are likely to increase for the third consecutive year in 2018. The average bonus rose 17 percent to $184,200 last year. Almost a fourth of securities industry employees earned more than $250,000 last year, compared with 2.5 percent for the rest of the city’s workforce.

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