Bosses of Britain's biggest public companies earn 86 times more than average worker in 2020
The bosses of Britain's biggest companies earned 86 times the average full-time wage last year.
The research also showed that average chief executive earnings at the nine FTSE-100 companies that used the furlough scheme to pay their employees, was £2.39m. "Amid a historic global crisis the captains of industry have played a key role in keeping us fed, entertained and connected," he said. He said that rather than obsessing about chief executive pay, "we should embrace policies that will boost pay for all workers as the economy recovers from Covid-19.
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