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The latest data from the UK High Pay Centre shows that the annual salary of British bosses is 120 times that of ordinary employees. According to a report by the British Guardian on the 12th, the median salary of CEOs of FTSE 100 companies reached an all-time high last year - rising to 4.19 million pounds.

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals' Soriot has been the highest paid CEO on the list for two consecutive years, with a salary of £16.85 million last year. AstraZeneca also announced earlier this year that it plans to increase Soriot's salary to £18.7 million, which means that the increase in his income in two years is more than the salary that the average British worker would have earned in 100 years of work at the average wage level last year.

Business people believe that talented executives need to be well paid to prevent them from leaving for the United States, where salaries are much higher. For example, Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, received the equivalent of £177 million last year.

British trade unions have long argued that huge CEO pay distorts the market and deprives lower-level employees of their fair share. The general secretary of the British Trade Union Union called the latest data "disappointing" and called on the government to "redesign the pay structure to reflect the contribution of all employees to the success of the company."

British people are also very angry about this. In the past three years, their average wage growth has largely failed to keep up with the soaring inflation rate. Some netizens said: "This approach has no logical or economic rationality. Can these people pay a little more so that ordinary people like us can also afford the cost of living?" (Zhang Qing)▲