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JPMorgan, BofA Show Gains in Headcount as Wells Fargo’s Drops

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Despite the layoffs across the finance industry, there were no signs of a staffing pullback in JPMorgan Chase & Co’s or Bank of America Corp.’s fourth-quarter results.

JPMorgan’s headcount rose 2% to 293,723 from 288,474 last quarter, the company said in its earnings release Friday. This is up 8% from 271,025 a year earlier.

Overall headcount at Bank of America jumped to 216,823 in the quarter, topping the year-earlier figure of 208,248 and the 213,270 from the prior quarter.

Wells Fargo & Co’s headcount dropped to 238,698 in its last quarter, according to its fourth-quarter results. That’s a drop from 249,435 a year earlier and even slightly smaller than the prior quarter’s 239,209.

Bloomberg chart showing Employees in Flux | Headcounts at major banks

Bank of America added more than 3,500 to staffing levels in the last year. Personnel costs were still roughly unchanged at $9 billion. At Wells Fargo, which shed almost 11,000 jobs in the last year, personnel costs also were about the same, at $8.4 billion.

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