Moving to quell the uproar over the return of big paydays on Wall Street, Goldman Sachs announced on Thursday that its top executives would forgo cash bonuses this year and that it would give shareholders a say in determining compensation.

With a resurgent Goldman set to award billions of dollars in bonuses  a trove that could rival the record payouts of the bubble years  the bank said that its 30 most-senior executives would be paid in the form of a special stock, rather than in cash. Goldman said that it would also let its shareholders vote on its executives’ pay, although the decision would be nonbinding.

A year after Washington rescued the nation’s financial industry with billions of taxpayer dollars, Goldman is enjoying one of the most profitable years in its 140-year history. Its bonanza  fostered by its own government bailout, as well as the rescue of the broader financial system  has angered the many ordinary Americans who are still waiting for an economic recovery.