CEO pay at UK’s top companies is 52 times that of typical worker, report finds

Phil Bentley, Mitie’s chief executive, was paid 575 times more than the firm’s median employee in 2023-24, the widest gap in the FTSE 350, the report said. Photograph: Mint Photography/Alamy

The chief executive of a FTSE 350 company is paid 52 times as much as a typical worker, according to the latest measure of inequality between bosses and their employees.

Median pay for FTSE 350 chief executives was £2.5m last year, which works out at 52 times a median worker’s pay, according to a new report from the High Pay Centre campaign group.