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21.10.20

Billionaires get richer – but capping top pay could raise incomes for low and middle earners

Does the Covid-19 crisis call for more radical action to address the inequalities it's perpetuating?

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Media

21.10.20

Redistributing pay from the top to the bottom

Luke Hildyard on Talkradio

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Blog

09.10.20

How can we change public opinion about the super rich?

HPC Director Luke Hildyard wrote for The Correspondent, in response to author and anthropologist Jason Hickel's article on billionaires and climate change

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Publications

08.10.20

Paying for Covid: capping excessive salaries to save industries

An in-depth study looking at the impact of potential redistribution from very high earners to low and middle income workers.

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Media

07.10.20

Welcome to our new website

A new website and a new look High Pay Centre

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04.08.20

HPC/CIPD Annual FTSE 100 CEO Pay Review – CEO pay flat in 2019

Median FTSE 100 CEO pay stands at £3.6 million – almost 120 times the average UK worker – but pandemic pay cuts could mean figure falls next year

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Blog

23.07.20

To ‘build back better’, we must tackle executive pay

New research has revealed how much CEOs earn compared to their colleagues – and the results aren’t pretty

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Past Event

08.07.20

Rethinking reward: can pay ratio disclosures locate the path to fair pay in post-lockdown Britain?

Event discussing new High Pay Centre research on the first mandatory pay ratio disclosures published in UK companies’ annual reports

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Blog

30.06.20

Executive Compensation: Covid-19—A “New Normal” Or Back To The “Old Normal” by 2022?

A guest blog from Iain Stark, international HR leader and reward expert, on the future of executive pay post COVID19. Executive compensation, especially CEO pay, is often a flashpoint, especially in times of a crisis,…

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30.06.20

COVID19 and corporate resilience

The pandemic is highlighting the deep flaws in the UK’s corporate governance system. Will this prompt listed companies to rethink their priorities? - A blog by Rachel Kay, a researcher at the High Pay Centre…

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Publications

28.06.20

Re-thinking reward: interim High Pay Centre analysis of new pay ratio reports

Our analysis of the first ‘pay ratio’ reports finds some limitations to the disclosures, but also identifies the potential to raise pay for low earners through redistribution from those at the top

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Past Event

29.05.20

Webinar – A fair deal for workers: what will responsible business mean post COVID19?

Tuesday 9 June 20201:00pm Zoom webinar Speakers Katie Jacobs - Business Journalist Duncan Brown - Independent Reward Adviser and Researcher; Visting Professor, University of Greenwich; Principal Associate, Institute of Employment Studies Alice Martin - Labour…

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26.04.20

High Pay Centre Briefing: Corporate Response to the Economic Shutdown

At least 18% of FTSE 100 firms are using the UK Government’s furlough scheme. 37% have cut executive pay and 33% are withdrawing or withholding dividend payments

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Blog

09.04.20

We can’t do more for low-paid workers without tackling excess pay at the top

recognition of low-paid workers is welcome, but for things to change, we need tough choices not warm words. Changes to corporate governance structures, stronger trade union rights and more progressive taxation There’s a growing recognition…

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18.03.20

Conditions are critical: publicly-funded bail-outs for private companies

Government bail-outs of large businesses affected by the coronavirus must include social and environmental conditions including fair pay, fair tax contributions and worker representation on company boards Our new discussion paper, published today (Thursday 19…

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Blog

27.02.20

Billionaires and poverty should not coexist

It's ludicrous to suggest that we need billionaires to incentivise work and wealth creation. A billion pounds is an almost incomprehensible amount of money. One of the most successful tricks that the rich and powerful…

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27.02.20

Purpose Beyond Profit: Where Next for Business?

WATCH IN FULL: an expert panel discuss the future of business and what action is needed to tackle climate change and reduce economic inequality On 26 February 2020 Oxfam and the High Pay Centre hosted an…

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Past Event

20.01.20

Working 9 to 5. What will pay ratio reporting mean? Will it change anything?

Wednesday 19 February 20202:30pm Standard Life Foundation, The Gherkin30 Saint Mary AxeLondon EC3A 8BF Speakers Luke Hildyard, Director, High Pay Centre (Chair)Charles Cotton, Performance and Reward Adviser, CIPDJanet Williamson, Senior Policy Officer, TUCTom Gosling, Partner,…

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