Top UK bosses are paid 115 times more than average worker, analysis finds

Vast gap in earnings described as unfair' and repugnant' by trade union leaders

Bosses of top British companies will have made more money by teatime on Wednesday than the average UK worker will earn in the entire year, according to an independent analysis of the vast gap in pay between chief executives and everyone else.

The chief executives of FTSE 100 companies are paid a median average of 3.6m a year, which works out at 115 times the 31,461 collected by full-time UK workers on average, according to research by the High Pay Centre thinktank.