CEOs earn average wage in three days

The average chief executive of Britain’s FTSE 100 top companies has earned the same in the first three days of 2018 as the typical worker will make in the entire year, according to the High Pay Centre and CIPD*


Britain’s top-paid CEOs		Company 			Annual salary

1. Sir Martin Sorrell		WPP				£48.1m (€54.1m)
2. Arnold Donald		Carnival			£22.4m (€25.2m)
3. Rakesh Kapoor		Reckitt Benckiser		£14.6m (€16.4m)
4. Pascal Soriot		AstraZeneca			£13.3m (€15.0m)
5. Erik Engstrom		Relx				£10.5m (€11.8m)
6. Bob Dudley			BP				£8.4m (€9.5m)
7. Albert Manifold		CRH				£8.0m (€9.0m)
8. Nicandro Durante		British American Tobacco	£7.6m (€8.5m)
9. Flemming Ornskov		Shire				£7.5m (€8.4m)
10. Ben Van Beurden		Royal Dutch Shell		£6.9m (€7.6m)
Median British workers’ salary					£28,758 (€32,339)


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*Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development – association for human resource management

Source: High Pay Centre 
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