Top bosses’ pay ‘overtakes average salary in under 3 days’

FTSE 100 bosses will have to work less than three days of 2026 to overtake the average annual salary of a full-time UK worker, according to new research.

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‘The High Pay Centre estimates that the earnings of FTSE 100 chief executives will surpass the average pay of British workers just before midday on Tuesday.

It calculates that the average yearly salary for chief executives of UK blue chips stands at £4.4 million, equivalent to an hourly rate of £1,353.23 and 113 times more than the £39,039 typical salary of a full-time UK worker.

‘The High Pay Centre, a think tank focused on fair pay, calculated these figures based on salary disclosures in companies’ annual reports and government statistics.

Andrew Speke, interim director of the High Pay Centre, said the figures “once again emphasise the huge gulf in how the work of most people is valued compared to a small number of feted executives’