{"id":13649,"date":"2024-03-10T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T10:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/10\/when-17m-isnt-enough-ftse-firms-plead-to-pay-bosses-millions-more\/"},"modified":"2024-03-10T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T10:37:16","slug":"when-17m-isnt-enough-ftse-firms-plead-to-pay-bosses-millions-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/10\/when-17m-isnt-enough-ftse-firms-plead-to-pay-bosses-millions-more\/","title":{"rendered":"When \u00a317m isn\u2019t enough: FTSE firms plead to pay bosses millions more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confronted by the huge salaries on offer in the US, London boardrooms are lobbying to be allowed to make their own bosses even wealthier<\/p>\n<p>There was a sharp intake of breath last month when the pharmaceuticals group AstraZeneca cemented chief executive Pascal Soriot\u2019s position as the best-paid FTSE 100 boss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/feb\/20\/astrazeneca-ceo-pascal-soriot-17m-pay-makes-him-one-of-best-paid-ftse-100-bosses\">with a \u00a317m pay package<\/a>, up from \u00a315.3m a year earlier. The latest award brings to \u00a3137m the amount he has earned since joining in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>While it drew the anger of corporate governance experts, Soriot\u2019s generous payout was just a fraction of the sums his counterparts at the biggest US companies take home. Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, Google\u2019s parent company, stands as the highest-earning boss on the US-based S&amp;P 500, with a $226m pay packet in 2022.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/mar\/10\/when-17m-isnt-enough-ftse-firms-plead-to-pay-bosses-millions-more\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/44bd465f3414b7a82d5fc9acd505500b099ac4c9\/0_247_5549_3329\/master\/5549.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9244eed8b1e3e346007f0237113888b8\" title=\"When \u00a317m isn\u2019t enough: FTSE firms plead to pay bosses millions more\" \/>Confronted by the huge salaries on offer in the US, London boardrooms are lobbying to be allowed to make their own bosses even wealthier<br \/>\nThere was a sharp intake of breath last month when the pharmaceuticals group AstraZeneca cemented chief executive Pascal Soriot\u2019s position as the best-paid FTSE 100 boss with a \u00a317m pay package, up from \u00a315.3m a year earlier. The latest award brings to \u00a3137m the amount he has earned since joining in 2012.<br \/>\nWhile it drew the anger of corporate governance experts, Soriot\u2019s generous payout was just a fraction of the sums his counterparts at the biggest US companies take home. Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, Google\u2019s parent company, stands as the highest-earning boss on the US-based S&amp;P 500, with a $226m pay packet in 2022. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confronted by the huge salaries on offer in the US, London boardrooms are lobbying to be allowed to make their own bosses even wealthier There was a sharp intake of breath last month when the pharmaceuticals group AstraZeneca cemented chief executive Pascal Soriot\u2019s position as the best-paid FTSE 100 boss with a \u00a317m pay package, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/10\/when-17m-isnt-enough-ftse-firms-plead-to-pay-bosses-millions-more\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When \u00a317m isn\u2019t enough: FTSE firms plead to pay bosses millions more<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}