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Statistics on Executive Pay in the UK

Geoff Riley

29th August 2017

New data has been released on the scale of the divide between the pay of CEOs and ordinary workers in the labour market. The UK government is considering legislation so that UK companies must publish pay ratios.

Here is an article on the Executive Pay Gap from the BBC drawing on data from the High Pay Centre

An article criticising the idea that the government should legislate to control executive pay.

A view on executive pay from Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable

Channel 4 Fact Check looks at the data too

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.

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