Wessex Water chief pockets above-inflation pay rise despite bonus ban over sewage spills

Wessex Water's chief executive, Ruth Jefferson, received a fourteen percent base salary increase, bringing her base pay to six hundred seventy thousand pounds. Her total compensation, including benefits, now stands at seven hundred ninety-one thousand pounds, per accounts published this month. That raise far exceeded the three point five percent increase given to regular workers, putting Jefferson's pay at eighteen times that of the company's median employee. The Guardian reports this happened as Wessex Water faced a bonus ban over sewage spills—a juxtaposition that has drawn union criticism of executives feathering their own nests.

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