Here are the UK's top-paid FTSE 100 CEOs— as report finds exec salaries at record high

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The bosses of Britain's biggest listed companies took location grounds salaries successful the latest fiscal year, according to a caller report.

Median wage among FTSE 100 main enforcement officers was £4.58 cardinal ($6.2 million) successful the twelvemonth to March 31, the High Pay Centre recovered — up from £4.29 cardinal successful the 2023-2024 fiscal twelvemonth and the highest fig since companies person been required to disclose a azygous fig for CEO pay, successful 2013.

Mean bonus payments meantime summation to £1.61 cardinal from £1.48 million, the deliberation vessel said.

CNBC has not independently verified the figures successful the report. The High Pay Centre's study does not see privately-held companies, meaning it does not bespeak each of the the U.K.'s apical earners.

The mean U.K. full-time idiosyncratic earned £37,430 past year, oregon 122 times little than the emblematic FTSE 100 chief. That spread is adjacent higher successful the U.S., wherever the bosses of the biggest listed companies made astir 290 times that of the mean idiosyncratic successful 2023, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute.

No women diagnostic successful this year's database of apical 10 FTSE 100 earners. The High Pay Centre said a full of 9 pistillate CEOs served for the full fiscal twelvemonth crossed the index, with median wage of £3.27 million, beneath the £4.64 cardinal for companies tally for the afloat twelvemonth by a man.

The U.K.'s highest-paid pistillate enforcement is wide understood to beryllium Denise Coates, caput of online gambling steadfast Bet365 Group, whose wage totaled £94.66 cardinal past year, according to institution accounts.

Since 2019, London-listed companies with implicit 250 employees person had to disclose the ratio betwixt the wage of their CEO and their mean idiosyncratic and marque disclosures to warrant the salaries of apical bosses.

Using this "single figure" disclosure, which typically includes basal salary, bonus, pension, and short- and semipermanent show incentives, the highest-paid CEOs successful the U.K. were:

Highest salaries among FTSE 100 CEOs

Company Sector CEO Pay 2024-25 (£m)
Melrose IndustriesAerospaceSimon Peckham/Peter Dilnot*58.9
PearsonEducationAndy Bird/Omar Abbish*18.9
AstraZenecaPharmaceuticalsPascal Soriot14.7
Coca-Cola Europacific PartnersConsumer GoodsDamian Gammell13.9
RelxData AnalyticsErik Engstrom13.5
3iPrivate equitySimon Borrows11.9
BAE SystemsDefenseCharles Woodburn11.7
HSBCBankingNoel Quinn/Georges Elhedery*11
Standard CharteredBankingBill Winters10.7
ExperianFinancial ServicesBrian Cassin10.6
*Annual complaint calculated from 2 figures wherever relation changed hands
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