Yet at a mere £4.4m a year to become a billionaire a FTSE100 boss would have to work 227 years before looking into tax.
As it stands someone on £4.4m a year only picks up £2.4m, with £2m going to the taxman, as well as an extra £660k the employer pays.
Someone picking up £1b through share price increase will pick up £720m after tax -- it will take the FTSE boss 300 years to earn that much.
A FTSE boss with £50m in the bank will earn more from capital growth in an index fund than they will through work.
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