Our weekly HR news and analysis audio programme includes: chief people officer Angela O’Connor tells Personnel Today how the Police Service should copy the Armed Forces in advertising better for the range of career paths it has on offer, to   More...
08 August 2008 17:25

Companies wishing to float on the Stock Exchange should first be prepared to pay an extra £100,000 per year to each member of their boards, according to research. A report by remuneration specialist Hewitt New Bridge Street showed that a six-figure p  More...
08 August 2008 12:34

Our weekly HR news and analysis audio programme includes: news that councils are increasingly poaching chief executives from rival local authorities, avoiding having to promote from within or train private sector converts how an employer   More...
25 July 2008 12:23

This week's special programme is recorded at the Human Resources Forum on board the Oriana cruiseliner. One NHS head of HR responds to Sir Gerry Robinson opening address about efficiencies in the NHS and in particular, executive pay Jonathan Aus  More...
12 May 2008 10:56

Local government HR chiefs justify their six-figure reward packages as delivering value for complex organisations. The revelation that at least nine local council HR chiefs took home six-figure salaries last year would have raised a few eyebrows am  More...
03 April 2008 11:40

Managers working in the emerging corporate social responsibility (CSR) profession can expect to earn between £40,000 and £60,000 a year. A study by CSR consultancy Acona, recruitment agency Acre Resources, and the Ethical Performance online   More...
02 April 2008 10:57

Salaries for human resources professionals rose by up to 11% last year, with the average salary for an HR manager now topping £43,000. A survey of its candidate base by recruitment firm Reed Human Resources found salaries increased well above the ra  More...
25 January 2008 08:38

Directors and chief executives of major organisations earn an average of £214,000 annually, 714% of the UK average wage of £29,999, according to a GMB analysis of pay by occupation for 2007. Second on a list of 341 posts in the union's occupat  More...
04 December 2007 10:16

Human resources news and analysis including: the winners of the Personnel Today Awards 2007 why the FA should use psychometric testing, and following the HM Revenue & Customs' "datagate", what possible new powers for the informati  More...
23 November 2007 16:36

The bosses of companies in the FTSE-100 index are taking home 100 times more than the average worker, new research has revealed. A report by the Income Data Services report found that the salaries of top executives have doubled in the past five ye  More...
29 October 2007 12:16

Boardroom wages increased by almost double the rate of UK average earnings this year, research has found. An annual report published by accountant Deloitte found that executive directors for FTSE 100 companies saw a 7% increase this year from 3.7%  More...
24 September 2007 15:06

Salaries for non-executive directors have increased by 6% in 2007, but the increase is one-third less than in 2005, research has found. An annual guide issued out by business services supplier PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found that the increase in  More...
20 June 2007 14:52

Members of pension funds are being urged to vote against the remuneration report of Shell  at its AGM on 15 May following the oil giant’s failure to link directors’ management of non-financial issues, such as health and safety, with long-term  More...
15 May 2007 11:33

Personnel Today readers have expressed their shock at the £500,000 salary package on offer to the new director-general of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Last week, Personnel Today revealed the big bucks on offer to  More...
02 May 2007 18:36

US-based HR directors top a global best-paid poll, followed by the UK and Germany, with India lagging at the bottom, research has found. A survey conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting found that US-based HR directors earn an average b  More...
25 April 2007 10:07

Share options, bonuses and other perks account for all but a quarter of executive pay packages, with share incentives worth an average of 60% of salary for chief executives and 29% of salary for senior-level executives (below board level)  More...
21 February 2007 11:00

Only one-third of organisations have a reward strategy and only half of these measure its effectiveness, a survey reveals. A study of 466 companies by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) also found just one-quarter of th  More...
09 February 2007 15:00

The average salary for an HR director at an NHS trust was £79,114 in 2006, compared with £97,620 for a finance director, according to the latest NHS salary survey. The survey of 69 NHS trusts by consultancy NHS Partners  found that the av  More...
05 February 2007 16:47

City firms are offering to buy out the annual bonuses of top executives in a bid to attract more high-fliers, a survey by Morgan McKinley has found. Bonuses are paid out at different times of the year by different firms, but the bonus '  More...
23 October 2006 11:09

Pay rises for UK business executives have once again easily outstripped average salary increases across the nation. The Executive Remuneration report by consultants Deloitte  found that the median basic salary increase last year for all full time e  More...
03 October 2006 09:29