LETTER:Per capita costs
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Sir: As a "headhunter" with 12 years' international experience, I am bemused by the "competitive market" argument used to justify chief executives' pay, particularly in public utilities. If someone needs to be paid £500,000 today to prevent them from being headhunted elsewhere, why did this not happen, say, four years ago, when they were earning only £80,000, probably in the same job?
In reality, British executives are not highly rated overseas and few are ever headhunted by American, German or other large foreign companies.
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F. E. ROGERS
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22 March
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