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FTSE 100 Top Earners Pocket As Much As 1500 Times The UK Average Wage

These CEOs Earn As Much As 1500x The UK Average Wage
George Bowden
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The highest paid FTSE CEOs earned as much as 1500 times the UK's average wage last year, a report by the High Pay Centre reveals.

While the average earnings for a full-time employee in the UK was £27,195, last year the top-ten highest paid CEOs collectively received £156 million.

And just one CEO took home almost a third of this figure - we've compiled the list of Britain's top earning CEOs below...

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Britain's Highest Paid CEOs (2015)
BP’s Bob Dudley(01 of10)
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Having almost recovered from the devastating Horizon disaster in 2010 which affected the Gulf of Mexico, BP rewarded its chief executive with £9.29m in pay in 2014, roughly 344 times the average UK full-time wage. (credit:AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
Experian’s Don Robert(02 of10)
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Experian is the credit rating agency that uses huge amounts of personal data to determine our credit scores. But Robert has little need for credit after being awarded £9.86m in pay last year, roughly 365 the average wage. (credit:AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Hargreaves Lansdown’s Ian Gorham(03 of10)
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Hargreaves Lansdown is a financial services company specialising in products for the casual investor. But it is the group’s CEO who has plenty to invest, with take home pay of around 392 times the average wage, at £10,608,000 last year. (credit:Hargreaves Lansdown)
Reckitt Benckiser’s Rakesh Kapoor(04 of10)
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Cilit Bang, Harpic, Finish, and Durex are among Reckitt’s stable of household brands. But Kapoor’s pay might be making the company's PRs reach for the Nurofen… his £11,237,000 pay packet is 416 times the national average. (credit:Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images )
Lloyds Banking Group’s Antonio Horta-Osorio(05 of10)
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Horta-Osario received £11,544,000 for his leadership of Lloyd’s, currently more than 20% owned by taxpayers. They’d be forgiven for taking exception to the ex-Santander boss’s pay – given it’s 427 times average pay. (credit:AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Prudential’s Tidjane Thiam(06 of10)
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Prudential is another financial services firm and top boss Thiam took home £11,834,000 last year – 438 times the average wage. Prudent? You decide. (credit:AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
TUI Travel’s Peter Long(07 of10)
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Deckchair filler TUI Travel recently launched flights on Boeing’s new Dreamliner. But it’s Long who’s dream lining his pockets, to the tune of £13,333,000 last year. That’s 493 times the average passenger’s wage. (credit:Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images )
RELX’s Erik Engstrom(08 of10)
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Little-known services firm RELX owns legal database LexisNexis and agriculture bible Farmer’s Weekly. Last year, Engstrom earned £16,176,000 – 599 times the UK’s average. (credit:RELX)
Royal Dutch Shell’s Ben Van Beurden(09 of10)
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The oil company certainly isn’t shy when it comes to shelling out wages – Van Beuren took home £19,510,000 last year – a whopping 722 times the UK average. (credit:AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell(10 of10)
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Having taken on Wire and Plastic Products in the 1980s, Sorrell aggressively maneuvered away from its original business in domestic manufacturing. WPP is now the world’s largest combined advertising business. Sorrell owns significant shares, so he picks up dividends and profits from buy backs. His take home pay was an incredible £42,978,000 last year – 1,591 times Britain’s average. (credit:AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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