Does a rich list CEO really need another £43 million?
The pay of Martin Sorrell’s employees has gone down while his has continued to soar
The pay of Martin Sorrell’s employees has gone down while his has continued to soar
Workers at ITV have been offered a 2 per cent wage increase. Meanwhile the chief executive last year took home £8.4 million.
The vast gap in living standards is the political issue of the moment
Higher pay would tempt to parliament the low performers of high paying professions, thus pushing out high performers of lower paying professions
And pay inequality is worse this year than last.
The relationship between bonus increases and profit growth is virtually non-existent.
The average pay of a FTSE 100 CEO has rocketed from around £1 million a year in the late 1990s to closer to £5 million today.
Top executives are pulling away from the rest of us, according to a new report.
The narrowing of inequality is almost certainly a temporary blip.
New polling found that 76 per cent of voters think big businesses has too much power over the government, reports Luke Hildyard.