FTSE 100 bosses make more money by noon today than average worker in a year

Bosses will hit milestone marginally quicker this year on the third working day of 2025 with median hourly pay of 1,298, says High Pay Centre

The chief executives of FTSE 100 companies will have made more money in 2025 by midday on Monday than their average worker does in a whole year, according to the latest measure of inequality between bosses and their employees.

Median pay for FTSE 100 chief executives is 4.22m, 113 times the median full-time worker's pay of 37,430, according to the High Pay Centre, a campaign group. That means UK bosses will exceed their workers' annual pay within 29 hours - or at about 11:30am on Monday, if they started work straight after the new year holiday.