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Banks slashing jobs

Banks aren't the big jobs machines they used to be.

By Christina Rexrode | Updated on April 25, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Banks aren’t the big jobs machines they used to be.

One after another, major financial firms are trimming their payrolls. In first-quarter earnings announcements this month, Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley revealed that they have slashed more than 31,000 jobs, or 3.5 percent of their combined workforce, in the past year. For three of those banks, it was the second straight year of cutbacks. And the pattern is being repeated at banks around the world.

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