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Top UK Executive Pay at New Record as More Take Home £10m

Executive compensation at leading UK publicly traded companies reached an unprecedented peak in the 2024-2025 financial year, with an increasing number of FTSE 100 firms awarding their top executives salaries of at least £10 million.
This surge follows previous increases, with the median CEO pay rising to £4.58 million, a 6.8% increase from the prior year, amid calls by a think tank to address excessive spending on top earners.
Details show 13 FTSE 100 companies now pay their CEOs £10 million or more, up from 10 the previous year, including AstraZeneca's Pascal Soriot who earned £14.7 million in 2024.
The High Pay Centre revealed that the average CEO of a FTSE 100 company earns 122 times more than the typical full-time employee in the UK, and the think tank called for reforms such as standardized pay disclosures and provisions aligned with the Employment Rights Bill.
This data marks the fourth consecutive year of record CEO pay levels, highlighting ongoing concerns over pay disparities and prompting demands for corporate pay-setting reforms in the UK.

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UK’S TOP BOSSES EARN 122 TIMES AVERAGE WORKER AMID COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS

Fri 22 August 2025: Executive pay at Britain’s largest listed companies soared to a new record high, with analysis revealing more FTSE 100 firms paid top bosses at least £10 million. Median chief executive officer pay reached £4.58 million in 2024-2025, a 6.8% increase on the previous year. This unprecedented level of remuneration was highlighted […]

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