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How much is a job worth? And how much really are the directors of British companies worth? Yesterday we learned that total remuneration had jumped 28 per cent in the last year- a mixture of base line increases and bonuses. Executive pay has risen dramatically every year since 2000; the average CEO now earns 100 times the average worker.

Bill Emmott, former editor of the Economist, defended all this yesterday as the result of market forces. I beg to differ. This is the result of market rigging big time. Remuneration committees all want to pay their executives in the top quartile as they say; they conduct pay surveys; determine the top quartile pay ; and hey presto - award their top executives an average 28 per cent increase. Everybody is benchmarked to the top earners, and the system of scrutiny and checks and balances is extraordinarily weak. Result; top pay rising exponentially - and soon it will reach American levels, 300 times the average workers pay.

Has this seen an improvement in Britian's underlying economic performance? No. If top pay is three times higher in 10 years time, will be that be because of trebled effort and trebled peformance? We know the answer is no, because that is what has happened over the last 20 years. Are the people who run our great companies so much better today than they were? I don't think so for a moment - and neither, I suspect, does Bill Emmott.