Executive pay

Ministers could block executives at Thames Water from taking bonuses after the utility applied for a £3bn emergency loan.

Lloyds reduces diversity targets which impact annual bonus payments for senior staff and its wider employee base.

Barclays and NatWest are among the latest businesses to drop climate goals from their bonus schemes for senior executives.

Barclays doubles its CEO’s pay to £10.5m as the bank's top performers share a bonus pot of £1.9bn.

High Pay Centre analysis shows CEO pay in FTSE 100 will surpass the median worker's 2025 salary at around 11:30 this morning.

European executive incentive programmes are increasingly being linked to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) metrics.

The High Pay Centre is calling for legislation to be strengthened on capping executive pay after a survey revealed most would support this.

Transparent and fair policies support a positive workplace culture just as much as any diversity initiative. 

Women on FTSE 100 boards still earn more than two-thirds less than their male counterparts, according to analysis by law firm Fox & Partners.

Nissan is slashing 9,000 jobs globally while its chief executive has taken a 50% pay cut in a bid to curb its losses.

New research has found that the pay of the chief executives of the UK’s largest companies increased by 2.2% in 2023.

Companies could face an exodus ofexecutives if they do not increase top-level pay, one of the UK's biggest asset management firms has said.

The best way of improving diversity within companies is by improving culture, not by imposing quotas, writes Dr Nahla Khaddage Bou-Diab, commenting on problems at Goldman Sachs.

A single minor Tesla investor who happens to be a heavy metal drummer brings down Elon Musk's $56bn remuneration package.

The UK's largest asset management organisation has updated its executive pay guidelines to permit US-style bonus structures linked to share price performance.