Fat cat bosses will have earned more by the end of Monday than an ordinary worker will all year.

The shock gap with rank-and-file staff means a typical CEO rakes in the average staff salary in just three working days.

FTSE 100 chiefs get the equivalent of £901 an hour, against £14.37 an hour for a full-time employee, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the High Pay Centre think-tank data shows.

The figures come as big firms are being forced to reveal for the first time the pay divide.

Big firms are being forced to reveal the pay gap between CEOs and staff - and the figures are shocking

The average FTSE 100 boss in 2018 got £3.46million, with the top paid being Jeff Fairburn, ex-chief of builder Persimmon, on £38.9million.

Peter Cheese, of the CIPD, said: “Pay ratio reporting is just the start. We need businesses to justify high levels of pay.” The analysis is based on longer hours and more days for those running firms.

But Luke Hildyard, of the High Pay Centre, said: “CEOs’ pay makes the UK one of Europe’s most unequal countries.”

TUC’s Frances O’Grady added: “Every working person plays a part but people at the top take more than their share.”

Edwin Morgan, of the Institute of Directors, said: “CEOs can make or break companies, so it’s no surprise boards will pay to get the right people.”

Top Five Fatcats:

1 Jeff Fairburn, Persimmon, £38.9m (left 2018)

House builder Persimmon was slammed for handing former boss Jeff Fairburn a bonus bonanza

2 Ben van Beurden, Royal Dutch Shell, £17.8m

3 Rakesh Kapoor, Reckitt Benckiser, £15.2m (left 2019)

4 Mark Cutifani, Anglo American, £14.7m

5 Pascal Soriot, AstraZeneca, £11.3m

Pascal Soriot, Chief Executive Officer, AstraZeneca PLC (
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Nearly two-thirds of people get the “Sunday night blues” three times a month, dreading the Monday return to work, an Investors in People poll shows.

Meanwhile, new figures also show working in an office costs employees as much as £1,715 every year.

Not including cash spent on lunch and transport, 2,000 office staff were asked about their work-related outgoings by Nationwide Building Society.

It found sums spent included £292.32 on drinks with colleagues and £154 on clothes.