A Tory billionaire has said bosses of London-listed companies should be paid like 'top-rate footballers'.Lord Michael Spencer, a financier made a peer by Boris Johnson, said it would attract better chief executives.The former Conservative Party treasurer told the Financial Times: 'We don't mind paying our footballers, top-rate footballers, extraordinary amounts of money. 'Somehow that's considered perfectly acceptable.
'FTSE 100 chief executives were paid a median £4.1m last year, compared to £12.5m for bosses of S&P 500 companies in the US, the newspaper reported.The four highest-paid footballers in the Premier League earn £18m to £20m annually, according to data agency Copology, but the FT found the average salary was more like £2m.
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