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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-008107"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GS"
cik: "0000886982"
company_name: "GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2025-01-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T23:39:31.178339+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Goldman Sachs grants $80M retention RSUs to CEO/COO, adopts carried interest program, sets 2024 CEO pay at $39M

## Summary
- Retention RSUs: 130,508 units each to CEO Solomon and COO Waldron, $80M grant value, five-year cliff vesting through Jan 2030.
- New Carried Interest Program allocates carry points to senior leaders in multi-asset access fund, reducing cash comp; distributions tied to fund performance and firm ROE >5%.
- CEO Solomon 2024 annual compensation set at $39M (70% PSUs, 7.5% CIP carry, 22.5% cash), up from $31M in 2023.
- Firm reported FY2024 net revenues $53.51B, net earnings $14.28B, diluted EPS $40.54, ROE 12.7%.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-008107
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GS
- cik: 0000886982
- company_name: GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2025-01-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886982/000119312525008107/0001193125-25-008107-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886982/000119312525008107/d856848d8k.htm

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