John Connolly, senior partner and chief executive at consultancy Deloitte is the UK’s best paid accountant, earning £3.6m last year.
Connolly, who also writes for Personnel Today, earns twice as much as Kieran Poynter, the UK chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Deloitte disclosed details of its partners’ earnings for the first time last year after becoming a limited liability partnership. The average pay for its partners increased from £621,000 in 2003 to £702,000 last year.
The firm is one of the UK’s largest graduate recruiters, taking on 850 graduates in 2004.
