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Your move, Lloyd.

That’s what JPMorgan Chase’s top boss, Jamie Dimon, might be saying to Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein today, after Dimon announced that JPMorgan would pay him a bonus of about $17 million, entirely in stock.

As first reported in The Post, Goldman has been locked in a high-stakes staring match with JPMorgan over which executive would report his bonus numbers first. Both are trying to avoid the public glare over being the highest-paid bank CEO on Wall Street.

Dimon is also putting his compensation package up for a vote by shareholders, which is what Goldman announced a few months ago it would do as it sought to beat back public ire over its outsized bonus pool.

After dialing back what would have been a record year in compensation, Goldman has said that it’s bonus pool would be around $16.2 billion. JPMorgan’s total compensation is meant to total about $9.3 billion.

Sources have told The Post that Blankfein is set to take home a bonus of about $25 million. Some also have speculated that he might take nothing at all, as the focus on pay intensifies.

Goldman is expected to reveal what its top bankers received sometime at the end of this month of next, sources say.

For comparison, Morgan Stanley’s newly appointed CEO, James Gorman, received $8.6 million worth of stock awards for 2009 and Citigroup’s CEO Vikram Pandit has vowed to take no bonus until he returns the bank back to profitability.

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