Persimmon pay boss slammed for being unable to tell MPs firm's average pay

By Jordan Marshall2018-06-07T13:29:00

The housebuilder was heavily criticised for handing its chief executive Jeff Fairburn a £75m bonus earlier this year.

Business committee chair Rachel Reeves has slammed Persimmon after the head of its remuneration committee said she did not know how much the average worker was paid by the firm.

At an evidence session held by the MPs on the business committee yesterday, Marion Sears, said she did not know what the average employee earned.

“The average … I don’t have that figure to my finger tips,” Sears told MPs, when asked by the committee chair, Rachel Reeves, what average pay was.

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