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Quoting the Crisis
04/02/2012
“ Executive pay at Britain’s top 100 publicly listed companies for 2010 rose on average by 49 percent compared with 2.7 percent for the average employee, according to a report by the High Pay Commission, a pressure group. At the oil giant BP, for example, the former chief executive Tony Hayward earned 63 times the amount of the average employee in 2010, the year he left the firm. In 1979, the multiple was 16.5, according to the commission. „
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Julia Werdigier in In Britain, a Rising Outcry Over Lavish Executive Pay - NYTimes.com
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