Google UK staff earned average wage of £160,000 each in 2015

Former public accounts committee chair Margaret Hodge says figure shows Google UK is 'not a back office support operation'

Google's 2,300 staff in the UK earned an average wage of 160,000 each last year, despite the group's insistence that its British operation is a modest outpost of the company's global empire.

Margaret Hodge, the former chair of the public accounts committee, said high pay among London staff was further evidence that Google's "complex structure of companies is a sham". Its UK employees mainly provide marketing and support services to offices in Dublin.