Chief executive salary
Britain's highest-paid chief executives
Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP is Britain's best paid chief executive, earning £70.4 million last year. There's a considerable gap back to Tony Pidgeley from Berkeley and Rakesh Kapoor from Reckitt Benckiser who both took home just over £23 million in 2015. Executive pay went up 10 percent last year and the rise shows no signs of stopping. Read the full story on the Independent.
Highest paid national news media executives in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2023 (in 1,000 British pounds)
Median full time gross weekly pay of the highest paid occupations in the United Kingdom in 2025 (in GBP)
Ranking of the highest paid business leaders in the world in 2024, according to the amount of their income (in million euros)
Highest CEO compensation rates from the biggest U.S. public companies in 2014 (in million U.S. dollars)
Highest-paid CEOs of Nifty 50 companies in India in the financial year 2025 (in million Indian rupees)
Salaries of CEOs of leading IT companies in India in the financial year 2025 (in million Indian rupees)
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