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High Pay Centre Deputy Director Luke Hildyard's column for Left Foot Forward Today (tuesday 6 January) is ‘Fatcat Tuesday’, the day on which the amount of money made by Britain’s top executives will surpass the…

Now it’s Fatcat TUESDAY! Top bosses pay will surpass the average full-time UK worker's annual salary after just TWO DAYS! By the end of today, Britain’s top bosses will have made more money in 2015…

January:Our research found that by 'fatcat Wednesday’, the third working day of the year, Britain's top bosses have already made more money than than the average worker will earn in the whole year. The High…

News that Helge Lund's pay award is to be reduced is welcome, but the sums of money involved remain astonishing Commenting on news that the pay package for incoming BG Group Chief Executive Helge Lund…

In this short film we explore the influence of big business on the policies that affect our lives. Many people think big business has too much power to influence policies that have an effect on…

Corporations once lobbied politicians to win approval for their pet policies – now it is the other way round. HPC Deputy Director Luke Hildyard blogs for Left Foot Forward Political parties now operate within parameters…

We should keep business out of politics, Professor John Kay, told a High pay Centre event to launch our collection of essays on Corporate Power. "The business of business is business," said Prof Kay. We…

HPC Deputy Director Luke Hildyard, blogs for HR Magazine Research from Incomes Data Services found that FTSE 100 directors’ pay increased by 21% over the past year, to an average of £2.4 million annually –…

A collection of discussion papers exploring new ideas around performance-related pay, including Peter Montagnon's plan that execs should be paid in cash and required to buy shares that they hold for 10 years Prof Sandy…

Performance-related pay does not work and in fact, could be counter-productive. The launch of our new report on performance pay last week prompted a lively discussion about whether bonuses and long-term incentives can produce the…

The relationship between bonus increases and profit growth is virtually non-existent There are a number of difficult questions to grapple with when trying to establish whether or not the increasingly extraordinary sums of money paid…

Research for High Pay Centre by Incomes Data Services shows that growth in executive pay, bonuses and incentive payments has vastly outpaced performance as measured by every indicator in common use A new report published…