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01.12.25

Budget 2025: Missed opportunities?

Given the sizeable profits made by banks in recent years, it looks like the Government have missed a great opportunity to raise money for further public investment. A blog by HPC researcher Paddy Goffey.

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27.11.25

High Pay Centre Reaction to Budget 2025

A budget that takes some welcome steps toward fairness, but does too little to tackle excess wealth and the structural causes of inequality.

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26.11.25

Budget 2025: How could it affect pension provisions?

While wages are the typical area of HPC focus when it comes to debates regarding fairness of pay and income inequality, pension provisions also inevitably affect employees’ standard of living in retirement. A blog by…

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26.11.25

Budget 2025: Higher taxes on dividends?

Given the way shareholder returns have increased regularly since the pandemic, It is understandable that the Chancellor is considering increasing taxes on dividends in the upcoming budget. A blog by HPC researcher Paddy Goffey.

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24.11.25

Workforce Reporting: where are we currently?

“There is a clear imbalance between data and narrative in company reports, with excessive emphasis on narrative that is often anecdotal and less materially relevant at the expense of hard, comparable data”. An HPC blog…

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21.11.25

Lloyds and the Limits of Employee Data: Why Trust Matter

Lloyds’ use of personal staff data sparked outrage — a cautionary tale showing why workforce reporting must balance insight, ethics, and trust.

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10.11.25

Pensions Schemes Bill

Business and Trade Select Committee Chair Liam Byrne proposes amendment requiring funds to consider how their investments affect beneficiaries’ living standards, ethical views, and wider societal and environmental impacts.

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07.11.25

Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Package Signals a Dystopian Turn in Capitalism

One individual’s pay package exceeds the GDP of most countries - a stark reminder of how extreme executive rewards fuel inequality and public discontent. HPC Interim Director Andrew Speke writes on Elon Musk's $1 trillion…

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04.11.25

Future of Workforce Reporting

New analysis from the CIPD and Railpen supported by the High Pay Centre highlights need for improved workforce reporting to strengthen transparency and reveal how well firms invest in and manage their people

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23.10.25

AGM Season 2025: Lessons on Strengthening Employee Voice in UK Retail

High Pay Centre (HPC) Researcher Paddy Goffey explains how HPC challenged FTSE 100 retailers on meaningful employee participation and governance reform during the 2025 AGM season.

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20.10.25

High Pay Centre warns against removal of key post-crash safeguards

Recent regulatory reforms are likely to benefit a few high-earning bankers while doing little for the wider economy.

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06.10.25

Luke Hildyard departs the High Pay Centre

The board says goodbye to Luke Hildyard after eleven years working for HPC including seven years as Executive Director

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23.09.25

Have you signed our petition yet?

Our latest newsletter including our petition for 10:1 pay ratios and rejecting Barclays CEO's call for a public sector pay freeze

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19.09.25

High Pay Centre hits back at Barclays CEO over public sector pay remarks

£10.5m pay packet exposes double standards amid pre-budget debate over the state of UK's public finances

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22.08.25

High Pay Centre and Equality Trust launch campaign calling for maximum 10:1 pay ratios

Sign the High Pay Centre and Equality Trust's petition calling for a maximum 10:1 pay ratio between bosses and their lowest paid workers

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21.08.25

FTSE 100 CEO pay reaches record high for third year in a row – the reaction

Widespread media coverage of this year's HPC CEO Pay Report

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17.08.25

CEO pay in the FTSE 100 reaches record high for the third year in a row

The High Pay Centre's annual review of CEO pay in the FTSE 100 shows median CEO pay jumping from £4.29m to £4.58m in 2024/2025

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24.07.25

Why we need a cap on water industry executive pay

A sensible pay limit would restore a public service ethos to the industry, and send a much needed message about fairness and proportionality across the wider economy.

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