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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

Most Britons back curbs on bosses’ pay, survey finds

The City of London financial district
The average FTSE 100 chief executive makes more money in four days than the average UK worker earns in the entire year. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Rex/Shutterstock

Six in 10 people think company bosses should be prevented from earning more than 10 times the average paid to employees, according to polling shared exclusively with the Guardian.

A poll for the High Pay Centre, a thinktank that campaigns for fairer pay for workers, found that 63% of Britons said chief executives should be paid no more than 10 times the earnings of lower- or mid-ranking employees.

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