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24.05.24

Tesco CEO’s pay more than doubles in the past year

Tesco CEO Ken Murphy's pay stands at nearly £10m now

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24.05.24

Reading the Rich List 2024: HPC analysis of the wealthiest households in Britain

More than half of the 20 richest households in the UK inherited their wealth or business.

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22.04.24

Who Are the Actual ‘Sober Realists’ in the Inequality Debate?

Bold measures are pragmatic at a time when advanced economies are seeing income and wealth concentration levels near historic highs. HPC Executive Director Luke Hildyard writes for Inequality.org

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11.04.24

Why CEOs are unlike Premier League footballers

Highly-paid business leaders frequently compare themselves to superstars in sports or entertainment, but for a host of reasons, the analogy doesn't really work. Blog from HPC Executive Director Luke Hildyard

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09.04.24

The pragmatic case for tackling billionaires

HPC Director Luke Hildyard writes for Labour Hub asking why supposed political pragmatists are not more interested in more efficient use of the income and wealth currently flowing to the super-rich

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08.04.24

Global billionaire wealth grows by $2 trillion in past year

Forbes annual billionaire list shows concerning growth of billionaire wealth

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05.04.24

The campaign for higher FTSE CEO pay and its discontents

Experts push back as supportive media coverage of calls for higher FTSE CEO Pay grows

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24.03.24

Leading Academics express concern about excess executive pay

Management, inequality and CEO pay experts write to Britain's biggest investors in a letter coordinated by the High Pay Centre

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18.03.24

Enough: Why it’s Time to Abolish the Super Rich

Book launch and panel discussion for HPC Executive Director Luke Hildyard's book 'Enough: Why it’s Time to Abolish the Super Rich' (18:15-19:45, Thursday 18 April 2024)

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27.02.24

The FTSE 100’s highest paid CEO gets a pay rise

Astrazeneca CEO's Pascal Soriot paid £17 million last year

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26.02.24

Judge rules Elon Musk $56 billion pay package too much

Elon Musk Tesla pay package legal ruling reveals a rotten system for rewarding executives

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21.02.24

Post-pandemic, pay inequality is back in business

The coronavirus pandemic sparked hopes that pay inequality could be radically reduced. Instead, inequality has ‘bounced back’, writes Andrew Speke for Red Pepper.

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29.01.24

New edition of UK Corporate Governance Code deletes every mention of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues proposed in draft version

Blog by HPC Director Luke Hildyard on the new edition of the Corporate Governance Code, regulating the boards of Britain's biggest companies.

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16.01.24

Excessive executive pay has negative consequences for everyone

Our pathway to economic success and higher living standards doesn’t involve lavishing more money on people who are already multimillionaires. Luke Hildyard writes for the Times.

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09.01.24

FTSE 100 CEOs paid in less than 3 days what a typical UK worker is paid in a year

Media coverage of High Pay Hour 2024

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09.01.24

Britain’s highest paid CEO gets 7 million pound pay rise

The boss of Bet365 was paid £221m during its last financial year, despite the company reporting a loss.

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04.01.24

High Pay Hour 2024

HPC has estimated that FTSE 100 CEOs' earnings for 2024 will surpass the median UK worker’s full time annual salary today, just before 1pm on Thursday 4 January.

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21.12.23

2023 in review

Read our review of 2023, and a summary of our reports, articles and media coverage below

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