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The IMF has warned that low productivity is a threat to the UK recovery. That is a result of the bonus culture. It needs to be replaced by company-wide profit share. Blog by Deborah Hargreaves…

Research from the High Pay Centre shows that average annual pay for a FTSE 100 CEO is still around £4.5 million, and could rise to nearly £6 million in 2014 Regulations introduced by the Coalition…

A new project by the High Pay Centre, will look at the link between pay and performance. How can variable pay be re-designed to encourage the right sort of executive behaviour? We will explore what…

Sources for the figures mentioned in our new animation, income inequality in the UK The growing pay gap The animation highlights the growing difference in pay for Brenda, an experienced nurse earning the UK’s average…

A CEO takes home more in three days than one of his employees can earn in a whole year. Huge pay gaps in the UK lead to rising inequality, but it doesn't have to be…

Government could use its power as a purchaser of outsourced services to demand executive pay restraint The size of the 'outsourcing market' for public services contracted by the state and delivered by private companies is…

New polling found that 76 per cent of voters think big businesses has too much power over the government, HPC Head of Research Luke Hildyard writes for Left Foot Forward Last week a study from…

Party leaders warned: ‘Ignore inequality at your peril.’ 80 per cent of public put reducing pay gap as priority for government Tackling the gap between rich and poor is set to become a defining issue…

HPC director, Deborah Hargreaves, argues in the New York Times that we need workers on boards to tackle huge corporate pay gaps The issue of pay ratios has become the latest front in a worldwide…

HPC, together with other investors and pay analysts, writes to regulator over concerns that companies are not fully complying with regulations on executive pay. Regulator responds to our concerns A group including the High Pay…

High Pay Centre Head of Research Luke Hildyard discusses the huge bonuses paid out at RBS In a Guardian webchat a couple of weeks ago, RBS CEO Ross McEwan described himself as being ‘pragmatic’ with…

Andrew Smithers, respected City economist, told a High Pay Centre debate that executive pay schemes reward short-term behaviour rather than investment in long-term business success Executive pay schemes are not fit for purpose and are…