Nicola Shaw’s pay award comes despite severe sewage pollution failures by the water utility
Yorkshire Water has handed its chief executive a £1.03mn pay package despite leaving thousands of households with disrupted water supplies for a fortnight and “severe” sewage pollution failures. Nicola Shaw, the chief executive of the water utility, received a base salary of £585,000 and a total pay package of £1.03mn — including a £371,000 bonus; 42.2 per cent of the maximum allowed — according to the 2023-2024 annual report published this week.
She also holds an additional role as non-executive director at International Airlines Group. Kate Bayliss, an academic and water expert at the University of London Soas, said water companies are “clearly not reading the room, given the public outrage at their performance, especially when these pay packages are funded by customer bills and there is a cost of living crisis”.
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