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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…

As HSBC hands its CEO allowances worth £32,000 a week on top of his £1.2m salary, the High Pay Centre calls on the regulator to investigate bank behaviour. British banks are now all finding ways…

An article by Deborah Hargreaves for the Webb Memorial trust website, arguing that companies should tackle the widening gap between workforce pay and executive remuneration The gap in pay for those at the top and…

HPC Head of Research Luke Hildyard debates inequality with Anthony Browne of the British Bankers Association This year ‘fatcat Wednesday’ took place on January 8. Just three working days into 2014, the bosses of Britain’s…

High Pay Centre Head of Research Luke Hildyard writes for Left Foot Forward, arguing that much of the concern about the cap on bankers' bonuses is exaggerated The first place to start on bankers pay…

HPC Head of Research Luke Hildyard discusses proposed 11% pay increase for Parliamentarians The mooted 11% payrise for Members of Parliament has prompted the curious spectacle of a professional group howling in protest at the…

UK bosses have already made more money in 2014 than the average worker will earn in the whole year Britain’s top bosses have already made more money in 2014 than the average UK worker earns…

The growing gap between rich and poor is causing London to feel like a divided city. This blog by Deborah Hargreaves appears on the Changing London website. London is at the centre of an increasingly…

Our thoughts on proposed changes to executive pay-setting process Is the current Code requirement sufficient, or should the Code include a “comply or explain” presumption that companies have provisions to recover and/or withhold variable pay?…