Meanwhile average (mean) FTSE 100 CEO pay jumped from £4.2 million to £5 million in 2023 due to big jumps in CEO pay awards at a small number of companies. In 2022 4 FTSE 100 CEOs were paid more than £10 million, in 2023 there were 9.

Read the full report here: highpaycentre.org/ftse-100-ceo-p…

There's no way a CEO-worker pay ratio of 268-1 can be justified.

The highest paid FTSE 100 CEO received a total of £16.85 million, at AstraZeneca. That’s 482 times the pay of the median UK full-time worker. Latest analysis High Pay Centre on CEO pay highpaycentre.org/ftse-100-ceo-p…

While CEO pay has stabilised at many FTSE 100 companies, the number of CEOs being paid £10 million+ has shot up. Luke Hildyard explains the risk that the gap between CEO and worker pay could continue to grow if we continue to follow the current business model.

Today's Guardian editorial says "achieving a more equitable distribution of rewards is...an ethical imperative" and that "Anything that helped rein in the current excesses would be a move in the right direction" citing our proposal for workers on boards theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Loved shooting the breeze re: CEO pay with the BBC Business news yesterday - thanks to Emmanuel Macron whose arrival 'en retard' for the post Olympic speech meant the programme didn't get cancelled

It shouldn’t be necessary to pay a CEO more than 100 times the pay of typical workers for a company to operate successfully, HPC Executive Director Luke Hildyard explains.

When there is a questionable relationship between company performance and how much a CEO is paid, we should take arguments that FTSE companies need even higher paid CEOs to thrive with a pinch of salt. HPC Executive Director Luke Hildyard speaking on BBC News

How Labour could raise tax on 25,000 people and end child benefits cap inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Tax the super rich. Andrew Speke from the High Pay Centre

A global wealth tax could raise $2.1 trillion a year by following the example of Spain’s successful wealth tax on the 0.5% richest households - double the amount needed annually for developing countries’ external climate finance. Tax Justice Network @TaxJusticeNet.bsky.social

So how does one tax the superrich exactly? 🤔 We've taken a page & some pictures out of wikiHow's book for our guide on how govt's can do just this. Govt's can raise $2 TRILLION a year by following the example of Spain’s wealth tax on the richest 0.5%. taxjustice.net/2024/08/19/wik…

Couldn't have said it better ourselves!👏 High Pay Centre

Insightful column from Nils Pratley on why the regulator can't let banker pay get out of hand. theguardian.com/business/nils-…

"Won't the rich just leave if you tax them more?" Recent wealth taxes in Norway 🇳🇴, Sweden 🇸🇪 and Denmark 🇩🇰 show that's not the case

"After the global financial crisis, the average interviewed CEO candidate has lower overall ability, is more execution oriented / less interpersonal, less charismatic and less creative / strategic than pre-GFC" Pretty damning. Higher pay for less return. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…