!['European firms are doing well' versus UK rivals, helping pay and bonuses rise](https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/FN-AN360_FN_Fun_M_20210421084927.jpg)
UK fund management staff were warned this time last year about their pay and bonuses, with the spread of the Covid pandemic dashing hopes they would be awarded the same double-digit increases some of them were handed in 2019.
As a result, fund management employees saw only modest increases to pay and bonuses in 2020. But their counterparts in others parts of Europe fared much better.