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> If you paid a CEO £500k instead of £20m and divided the rest amongst the average number of employees amongst the FTSE100 which is 44,000, then each of those workers could enjoy a £38 pay rise monthly pre-tax.

What if you cut the entire C-suite's salaries? And maybe their reports' salaries too?

> Without the CEO, the company would not exist, not function or certainly not be as large as it is

You mean the founder. Otherwise the company existed before the CEO came along. And if it didn't employ that CEO it would employ some other CEO.



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