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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

Sainsbury’s CEO’s pay triples to £3.8m as firm rejects living wage calls

Simon Roberts
Simon Roberts’s pay packet is 183 times larger than that of the median worker at the supermarket. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Sainsbury’s has revealed that its chief executive, Simon Roberts, received pay worth £3.8m in the latest financial year even as it rejected calls from big investors for it to ensure all workers in its stores receive a living wage.

Roberts’s total pay nearly tripled for the year to March from the £1.3m he received in 2021, when he waived his bonus in light of the coronavirus pandemic, according to figures published in the supermarket’s annual report on Monday.

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