First Mariner CEO Mark Keidel paid $244,000 in 2011

First Mariner Bancorp CEO, Mark A. Keidel, was paid a total of $244,436 in 2011, the company said in a proxy statement filed late Friday.

Keidel’s total compensation package was about half the $542,825 his predecessor, First Mariner founder Edwin F. Hale Sr. received in 2010. Keidel, 50, was First Mariner’s president when he was named First Mariner’s interim CEO in December 2011. The move came after Hale retired as chairman and CEO as part of a plan to recapitalize First Mariner Bank through…