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Guardian

30 August 2007

Critics of the growing pay gap are missing the point
Peter Newhouse

The disclosure of executive directors' pay is good for society. Rather than being a cause for hand-wringing and envy, the Guardian pay survey's revelations of what our best managers can earn from running the UK's biggest listed companies should encourage others to follow in their footsteps. The survey found that directors' pay at the 100 largest such firms has risen by 37%, with the average chief executive receiving £2.9m, including salary, benefits, bonuses and gains from share incentive schemes. These figures send an important message to able and aspirational young people.
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Guardian/RTF Survey

The Reward Technology Forum has conducted research into the Executive pay of FTSE 100 companies.

The results of the 2007 Guardian/RTF Survey on FTSE100 Directors’ Pay was published in the Guardian on August 29th and 30th 2007.

The results of the 2006 Guardian/RTF Survey on FTSE100 Directors’ Pay was published in the Guardian on 2nd October 2006.

To view the Guardian articles related to this research go to www.guardian.co.uk.

 

Benefits & Compensation International

December 2005

In Search of the Well-Balanced Pay Package
Peter Newhouse

To engage their workforce most organisations seek to maintain an appropriate balance between the various elements of the pay package. But is the role and purpose of these elements always clear? What are the considerations which influence their relative size and composition? Is there any evidence that different package configurations are more or less attractive to recipients? By what yardstick might we measure an ideal balance?
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Benefits & Compensation International

November 2003

Taking Stock of Stock
Peter Newhouse

Share options have already been identified as the great culprit in the fat-cat culture of greed and they are now under pressure from all sides.
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Daily Telegraph

Monday, 11th August 2003

Personal view: A radical rethink on executive pay is needed to make it open and fair
Peter Newhouse

Few days go by without a new example of something that seems to be wrong with pay. Yet it is not easy to finger the real problem. Fat cats, reward for failure, corporate excess: easily said but what does it mean?
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The Business

Sunday 16th February 2003

Executive pay - are executive share options now an endangered species?
Peter Newhouse

Already identified as the great culprit of the fat cat culture in the UK, share options are under pressure from all sides. Stock markets are down for three years in a row and, with no respite in sight, most executive share options look worthless.
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