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Pay for the directors of the UK's top businesses rose 50% over the past year, a pay research company has said
Incomes Data Services (IDS) said this took the average pay for a director of a FTSE 100 company to just short of £2.7m.
The rise, covering salary, benefits and bonuses, was higher than that recorded for the main person running the company, the chief executive.
Their pay rose by 43% over the year, according to the study.
Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking in Australia, said the report was "concerning", and called for big companies to be more transparent when they decide executive pay.
A statement from IDS said that that figure suggested that "executive largesse is evenly spread across the board".
Base salaries rose by just 3.2%, although that was above the median rise recorded by IDS this week for average pay settlements of 2.6% for private sector workers.
The latest consumer price inflation figures showed inflation at 5.2%.
Directors' bonus payments, on average, rose by 23% from £737,000 in 2010 to £906,000 this year.
The Unite union has called executive pay "obscene" and has called for shareholders to be given more power to hold directors accountable.
The union's general secretary, Len McCluskey said: "The Government should strongly consider giving shareholders greater legal powers to question and curb these excessive remuneration packages.
"Institutional shareholders need to exercise much greater scrutiny and control of directors' pay and bonuses.
"It's obscene and it shows that the City has learnt nothing during the financial troubles of the last four years."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15487866
And many people wonder why the workers are so pissed