Bosses at Britain's biggest companies have already been paid an average worker's annual salary

Businessman looking out of a large boardroom window at London's financial district at night (Credit: John Lamb—Getty Images)

Bosses at the U.K.’s biggest companies have already earned the equivalent of Britain’s median annual salary this year, according to new research, with top CEOs raking in tens of thousands of pounds before the third working day of 2023 is out.

According to calculations published on Thursday by the High Pay Centre, a London-based thinktank that campaigns for pay equality, median CEO pay at FTSE 100 firms—based on an analysis of the most recent CEO pay disclosures and government wage statistics—currently stands at £3.41 million ($4.1 million).