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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

FTSE 100 bosses make more money in 2025 by noon today than average worker in a year

skyscrapers in the City of London skyline
Median pay for FTSE 100 chief executives, is £4.22m, 113 times the median full-time worker’s pay of £37,430, according to campaign group the High Pay Centre. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/REX/Shutterstock

The chief executives of FTSE 100 companies will have made more money in 2025 by midday on Monday than their average worker does in a whole year, according to the latest measure of inequality between bosses and their employees.

Median pay for FTSE 100 chief executives is £4.22m, 113 times the median full-time worker’s pay of £37,430, according to the High Pay Centre, a campaign group. That means UK bosses will exceed their workers’ annual pay within 29 hours – or at about 11:30am on Monday, if they started work straight after the new year holiday.

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