Executive pay

Publications

05.05.23

Who Won? Who Lost? The Distributional Impact of COVID-19 Government Support for Business

New research from Aston University supported by the High Pay Centre examines how different stakeholders at the UK’s largest businesses – board executives, shareholders, and workers – fared during and after the peak of the…

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Blog

12.01.23

Why workforce reporting matters – investors care, and companies should too.

Improved workforce reporting will lead to more informed decisions, minimising risk, increasing trust and ultimately bringing positive change throughout the organisation.

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03.01.23

2022 in review

Read our review of 2022, and a summary of our reports, articles and media coverage below

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16.12.22

Worthwhile Workforce Reporting

Our new research outlines the principles of good reporting, with supporting examples.

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Blog

15.12.22

The U.K. is facing another ‘winter of discontent’

Industrial action is not simply just a matter about pay. Strikes are about poverty, hunger, and insecurity. They are about inequality and a duty to fairness

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Blog

15.11.22

Giving workers a greater say in the companies they work for can help boost businesses – and the public agree

Greater worker voice in the workplace will create businesses that work for the economy and wider society.

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27.10.22

Worker voice in corporate governance – How to bring perspectives from the workforce into the boardroom

6 in 10 believe the main priority of business should be delivering better pay for their workers

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Blog

10.10.22

To what extent will low and middle earners benefit from Kwasi Kwarteng’s decision to scrap the bankers’ bonus cap.

Scrapping the banker bonus cap risks taking us back to an era when bankers were heavily incentivised to discard any concern for their customers, wider society or basic ethics. A blog by Luke Hildyard

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Blog

03.10.22

A budget for the 1% – how Trussonomics is set to fail those struggling with the cost-of-living crisis?

This budget disproportionately benefits the wealthiest in society, and fails to adequately protect the most vulnerable in society this winter. A blog by Harry Window

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22.08.22

CEO pay survey 2022: CEO pay surges 39%

High Pay Centre and TUC research finds that median FTSE 100 CEO pay increased from £2.46m in 2020 to £3.41m in 2021

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02.05.22

Six out of ten people think CEOs should be paid no more than ten times their typical employee

New polling shows strong support for caps on top pay and measures to tackle inequality As part of a forthcoming report on pay ratios, we recently conducted some opinion polling on public attitudes to pay…

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Media 一Featured

14.03.22

It would take the average supermarket CEO less than two days’ work to earn the annual salary of a colleague on the minimum wage

New research shows the huge disparity between supermarket CEO pay and their store colleagues’ pay.

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