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The median pay of bosses at the top companies in the UK is 109 times more than the median worker pay.
  • The CEOs of top companies in the UK will earn the median annual salary of a full-time worker in just three days.
  • That's according to analysis of CEO pay and average pay in the UK by the High Pay Centre. 
  • These CEOs take home a median pay of £3.81 million ($4.8 million), per the report.

The bosses of top companies in the UK will have earned more money by 1 p.m. on Thursday 4 January than the average worker makes in a year, a new analysis by the think tank High Pay Centre found.