The earnings gulf between the UK’s top business leaders and the average worker has narrowed fractionally in the past year — but FTSE bosses have still taken less than three days in 2020 to be paid the average annual salary, again.

Over the first three working days of the year, a FTSE 100 chief executive will have earned the average worker’s total pay in 2020, according to the annual “High Pay Day” figures published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the professional body for HR development, and think-tank the High Pay Centre.