{"id":2342,"date":"2016-01-08T11:16:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T11:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:01","slug":"fat-cat-salaries-read-and-weep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/01\/08\/fat-cat-salaries-read-and-weep\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Cat salaries: read and weep!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Fat Cat Tuesday<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">On the 5<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> January 2016 top bosses salaries\u00a0 FTSE CEOS will already have exceeded the average annual pay of many workers (\u00a327,645) according to the <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/highpaycentre.org\/blog\/fat-cat-tuesday-2016\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">High Pay Centre<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Find out <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/highpaycentre.org\/counter\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">how wages compare using their pay calculator<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwc.co.uk\/services\/human-resource-services\/insights\/raising-the-bar-the-state-of-executive-pay-in-2015.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Price Waterhouse Cooper<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> conducts regular surveys on the state of executive pay in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">According to<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cipd.co.uk\/hr-resources\/research\/view-below-employees-ceo-pay.aspx\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\"> a recent survey from CIPD<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> 71% of employees think CEO pay is too high in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">In an associated report on the behavioural impact of high wages on CEO behaviour and motivation CIPD recommended that pay rises became evidence based.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncvo.org.uk\/about-us\/media-centre\/press-releases\/642-full-transparency-vital-for-trust\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">NCVO conducted an inquiry into executive pay in the charity sector<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">.\u00a0 The final report from 2014 can be downloaded from their website<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Norton Rose Fulbright maintain a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nortonrosefulbright.com\/knowledge\/technical-resources\/the-uk-corporate-governance-portal\/executive-pay\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">UK Corporate Governance portal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> which as a really useful collection of links to recent reports from the UK government, trade associations and other bodies on executive pay.\u00a0 These cover regulation, performance related pay and ethics related issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fat Cat Tuesday On the 5th January 2016 top bosses salaries\u00a0 FTSE CEOS will already have exceeded the average annual pay of many workers (\u00a327,645) according to the High Pay Centre Find out how wages compare using their pay calculator Price Waterhouse Cooper conducts regular surveys on the state of executive pay in the UK. 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