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NewbieHK
Added 11 months ago

“Not sensible and proportionate”

Some other choice words come to mind after reading this!

Unbelievable!


The founder and boss of gambling company Bet365 earned a salary of around $281 million (£221 million) in the last financial year – ending March 26, 2023. The figure was described as not “sensible and proportionate” by one campaign group.

Denise Coates, the joint-chief executive and majority shareholder of Bet365, also earned at least 50% of the company’s $127 million (£100 million) in dividends on top of her $281 million salary, company accounts published on Sunday show.

Her base salary is an increase of about $10 million compared to last year, even as Bet365 made pre-tax losses of around $77 million (£60.2 million). The company accounts attribute the losses to “a significant increase in costs associated with entering into new markets.”



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Strawman
Added 11 months ago

That does some like an egregious level of pay @NewbieHK -- especially for someone who is already worth over $3.6 Billion!

Still, it's a private company owned by the family, so I guess they can do what they like.


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AUROPAL
Added 11 months ago

@Strawman exactly, it's a family owned private company so they can do what they like.

I sure wouldn't want to be a minority shareholder though!

Didn't the former CEO of WeWork also pay himself some unjustifiable amount of money?

Although it is a little strage as, unless they're domiciled in a very tax friendly country, that level of pay would be hugely eaten up by tax. You'd think they'd prefer to pay it out as dividends to a trust or some other more tax effective vehicle than purely salary.

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Karmast
Added 10 months ago

It seems like a rounding error compared to the A $80 billion package Elon was awarded by the Tesla Board a few years back. Admittedly the hurdles were high and they probably didn't think he'd be eligible for that much...and fortunately a US court this week scrapped it in response to a shareholder action about the excessive nature of it!!!

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