Research: High Pay Centre: The Myth of Shareholder Stewardship
The High Pay Centre analysed the pay policies of FTSE 100 firms between 2014-2018, and during this time found every pay policy put to shareholders was approved.
This is despite The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act (2013) which gives shareholders a binding – rather than advisory – vote on their companies’ executive pay policy at least once every three years.
It finds:
- Across more than 700 pay-related resolutions voted on at annual meetings over the period, average shareholder dissent was just 8.8%
- Median levels of chief executive pay climbed to £3.9m in 2017 – an increase of 11%
- CEO pay is now 137 times the annual salary of the typical UK worker