Millionaires are five times more concerned about doctors leaving the UK than they are about other millionaires emigrating 💸 Our poll also found millionaires are proud to live in the UK, and they're willing to pay more tax to invest in our country and its young people.
Great to see the @greenparty.org.uk under @zackpolanski.bsky.social have included tackling excessive income equality in their plan to take on the affordability crisis. 10:1 pay ratios is very ambitious, but far better to aim high than accept a broken status quo which few people support.
High Pay Centre@highpaycentre.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe welcome @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @greenparty.org.uk plans to put pay ratios centre of their campaigning on the affordability crisis. HPC have long argued that the UK's pay model is broken, driving extreme inequality and wage stagnation. This is unacceptable in a cost of living crisis.
Fab video from the @highpaycentre.bsky.social on the *shocking* size of bankers bonuses 💰 Years of higher interest rates have let banks rake in record profits while our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soar. Add your name to #TaxTheBanks 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
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Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing. The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...
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High Pay Centre@highpaycentre.bsky.social · 4mo agoPay at big banks is soaring while millions struggle through the cost of living crisis. This level of inequality isn’t sustainable, and if it’s not addressed, it will keep eroding trust in both business and politics.
We spoke to Londoners how they felt about CEOs of the big banks getting bumper pay rises, and earning more in a year than most people would earn in several lifetimes. See how they responded below.
High Pay Centre@highpaycentre.bsky.social · 4mo agoPay at big banks is soaring while millions struggle through the cost of living crisis. This level of inequality isn’t sustainable, and if it’s not addressed, it will keep eroding trust in both business and politics.
Increasing collective prosperity and tackling economic inequality is not a binary and should not be seen as one. Many people have growing awareness that greater economic growth does not necessarily mean better living standards for themselves.
Few examples better illustrate the UK’s broken corporate model than thousands of homes across Kent being left without water. Our researcher, Paddy Goffey, writes in @LeftFootFwd outlining the need for CEO to worker pay gap caps in such failing industries: leftfootforward.org/2026/01/why-...
Why it’s time for CEO-to-worker pay caps
A new approach based on CEO to worker pay gap caps could ensure execs are committed to providing a public good, as opposed to being driven solely by financial incentives.
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The govt came to power claiming to be pro worker and pro business, but pro-business shouldn’t mean caving to the most regressive demands of the business lobby. Nor should good regulation be used as an excuse for poor growth. Our statement on the govt scrapping the corporate governance and audit bill
High Pay Centre@highpaycentre.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe government's lack of ambition on corporate governance reform is disappointing. Abandoning its Corporate Governance and Audit Reform Bill is a missed opportunity, based on the myth that regulating business effectively is bad economics. highpaycentre.org/high-pay-cen... 1/9
By this time yesterday FTSE 100 CEOs had already made more this year than an avg UK worker earns all year. Our Interim Director @andrewspeke.bsky.social explains how we can start to tackle extreme pay inequality. Sign our Fat Cat Tax petition here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fat-…
We are sad to be saying goodbye to our Executive Director of seven years, @lukehildyard.bsky.social, and are pleased to announce that our Head of Communications, @andrewspeke.bsky.social, will be stepping in as Interim Director. We wish Luke all the best in his new role at @shareaction.bsky.social!
The full report showing who the highest earners are and our proposed solutions to extreme pay inequality is now published here. highpaycentre.org/ceo-pay-in-t...
CEO pay in the FTSE 100 reaches record high for the third year in a row - High Pay Centre
The High Pay Centre's annual review of CEO pay in the FTSE 100 shows median CEO pay jumping from £4.29m to £4.58m in 2024/2025
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🚨NEW: The pay of FTSE 100 CEOs has reached a new record high of £4.58 million. The third record setting year in a row. FTSE 100 CEO pay is 122 times greater than the typical UK worker. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Record salaries for UK chief executives as pay rises for third year in a row
Report finds more than £1bn handed out to just 217 FTSE 100 bosses in the last financial year
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In Westminster, a Blue Labour staff network has been set up. I spoke to the earnest (mostly) young (mostly) men of the tendency about their politics, plans and why they really just want to have a big chat: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Meet the Blue Labour bros
Inside the ideological faction remaking the party and the government.
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NEW: Our latest research shows that pay gaps at the largest UK companies between CEOs and their employees are as wide now as they were 5 years ago, with a FTSE 100 CEO paid 78 times more than their median employee. Has the time come for a maximum wage? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
CEO pay at UK’s top companies is 52 times that of typical worker, report finds
High Pay Centre thinktank says median pay of FTSE 350 chief executive was £2.4m in 2023-24 financial year
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In an era when the global political situation and climate crisis make sustained economic growth increasingly hard to achieve, we can't increase living standards for most people without tackling extreme inequality. New research from @equalitytrust.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
UK’s 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of population, analysis finds
Equality Trust says billionaires getting ‘ludicrously’ richer, with top two now wealthier than whole of 1990 rich list
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The High Pay Centre response to the 2025 Sunday Times Rich List
The rich list is a useful annual reminder of the inefficiency of the UK economy. Despite a dip in oligarch wealth this year, in the long term it has shown a trend of a handful of very rich people capturing an increasing share of the country’s wealth. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
King Charles’s wealth swells to match Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty on UK rich list
Sunday Times says monarch’s personal fortune has risen to £640m, while that of ex-PM and wife has fallen to that level
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Recently left Labour and joined the Greens to #backzack in the Greens leadership election this summer. Politics has swung to the right in the UK and we need the Greens to provide a strong left alternative which prioritises tackling the root cause of our problems - inequality.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · last yr.Deeping inequality. Nature & climate crisis. The far right are on the rise. It's time for bold leadership. Now. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Average global CEO pay has skyrocketed 50% since 2019 to $4.3M. By contrast, average worker pay has risen just 0.9% over that same time period. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Global CEO pay increased by 50 percent since 2019, 56 times more than worker wages
Average CEO pay surged by 50 percent in real terms since 2019, while average worker wages increased by just 0.9 percent.
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Today's results and the feedback from voters shows that this government is going to need to do more to improve the material conditions of those on low and middle incomes if they want to stay in power after the next election. Tackling economic inequality is crucial to that. (1/4)
On 19 May we are hosting this webinar with the authors of new book 'Collective Employment Relations: A Strategic Guide" to discuss how positive relationships between management and trade unions can benefit both business and workers. highpaycentre.org/fromconflict...
From Conflict to Collaboration: Rethinking Union-Management Relations - High Pay Centre
How unions & management can work together to navigate change, tackle inequality & build fairer workplaces in a shifting world of work. (Online webinar, 12:00-13:00, Monday 19 May)
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Adrianne Lenker’s new live album deserves some hype. The most immediately satisfying album I’ve heard so far this year. Love everything about it.
There’s a really depressing irony of billionaires banging on about how privileged trans people are when we all send the same £20 to each other’s surgery fundraisers, yet they’re stumping up £70,000 to pay for the erosion of our rights
Literally every single toilet is cleaned by attendants of every gender. They're not sex protected spaces, at all. The Minister is just a transphobe.
Beyond contempt. What’s worse is that the political choices and statements the government are making go way beyond the limited judgment the Supreme Court made over the use of the term woman in the Equality Act. Just morally bankrupt pandering to a media radicalised by anti-trans hysteria
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · last yr.Asked if Keir Starmer still believes that a trans woman is a woman, his spokesman replies "no". Says that trans women must now use men's bathrooms
