CEOs still incentivised to prioritise profits before people
National media coverage of our latest research
CEO pay and the workforce: how employee matters impact performance-related pay in the FTSE 100
03.12.20
CEO pay and the workforce: how employee matters impact performance-related pay in the FTSE 100
High Pay Centre and CIPD analysis shows that despite an increasing interest in ESG factors, performance-related pay for FTSE 100 CEOs is still primarily based on financial returns to shareholders rather than the needs of…
Stakeholder capitalism: More talk than action?
High Pay Centre and CIPD report launch on employee-related metrics in CEO pay packages. (13:00-14:00 Thursday 3 December)
Unions Renewed: Building Power in an Age of Finance
A discussion with the authors of a new book on the future of trade unions (13:00-14.30 Friday 13 November)
Billionaires get richer – but capping top pay could raise incomes for low and middle earners
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?
Redistributing pay from the top to the bottom
Luke Hildyard on Talkradio
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
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.
Welcome to our new website
07.10.20
Welcome to our new website
A new website and a new look High Pay Centre
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
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
Rethinking reward: can pay ratio disclosures locate the path to fair pay in post-lockdown Britain?
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
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,…
COVID19 and corporate resilience
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…
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
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…
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
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…