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British companies are under heightened scrutiny over their pay
structures and national broadcaster the BBC has faced criticism
over why it pays some women less than men in equivalent jobs.
New easyJet CEO Johan Lundgren will reduce his salary from
740,000 pounds ($1.04 million) to 706,000 to match the pay of
McCall, who became the chief executive of broadcaster ITV at the
start of this year. The rest of his pay package will also be the
same.
In his last job at travel group TUI <TUIT.L>, Lundgren was paid
875,000 euros ($1.09 million), according to the firms annual
report, and he said easyJet was committed to giving equal pay
and opportunity to women and men.
"I want that to apply to everybody at easyJet and to show my
personal commitment I have asked the Board to reduce my pay to
match that of Carolyn's when she was at easyJet," he said in a
statement. He joined easyJet last December.
McCall is one of just six female CEOs among Britain's biggest
100 companies. A report last year by the High Pay Centre and the
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) found
that male CEOs in the FTSE 100 earned on average 2.1 million
pounds more than women in 2016, and were more likely to be
called David than be female.
The aviation industry has a particular issue with gender
equality as a vast majority of pilots are men.
EasyJet said on average, male employees earned twice as much as
women but that was driven by the fact that 94 percent of its
pilots were men. It said that pay rates are the same for men and
women but pilots are paid more then other roles.
EasyJet said it was aiming to recruit more women as pilots, with
a target that 20 percent of new pilots would be female by 2020.
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(Reporting by Alistair Smout; editing by Michael Holden)
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