Bloomberg Markets Magazine has compiled a list of the top 50 financial CEOs in the U.S. ranked by their total pay packages in 2011.

Laura Marcinek and Nikolaj Gammeltoft, the authors of the piece, note that for these CEOs, "compensation collectively rose by an average of 20.4 percent in 2011 -- a year when most big banks and brokerages saw their revenues, profits and stock prices plummet."

A look at each CEO's year-over-year pay increase compared with his respective firm's share performance in 2011 reveals a wide disparity between pay and performance at the top of the financial industry in the United States.

Thanks to Bloomberg Markets for giving us permission to run their list.

