Boss of British Gas-owner Centrica to receive £3.7m bonus.

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The boss of British Gas-owner Centrica will receive bonuses worth £3.7m after the firm posted record profits in 2022.
Chris O'Shea, who has refused bonuses for the past three years, will also get a £790,000 salary.
It comes as millions struggle to pay energy bills and after debt agents for the firm broke into vulnerable people's homes to fit prepayment meters.
The firm said Mr O'Shea had delivered "shareholder value" and navigated "regulatory and political issues".
Centrica's profits for 2022 hit £3.3bn after oil and gas prices jumped following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The figures, published in February, have sparked calls for energy firms to pay more tax as people are hit by surging bills.
At the time Mr O'Shea said it was "too early to have a conversation" about any potential bonus.
But in its annual report published on Wednesday, Centrica said it needed to pay bonuses to attract and retain leaders.

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Board member Carol Arrowsmith said: "Like most public companies we hire our senior executives on employment contracts that have a significant proportion of pay which is performance-related."
Mr O'Shea turned down a £1.1m bonus in 2021 due to "hardships" faced by customers. He also refused bonuses in 2020 and 2019 because of the pandemic.
The energy giant has come under fire in recent months after an investigation by the Times newspaper revealed debt agents working for British Gas had broken into the homes of vulnerable people to force-fit prepayment meters.
It has resulted in many more similar incidents emerging.
In response, the energy regulator Ofgem has asked all suppliers to suspend forced prepayment meter installations. Courts in England and Wales also halted applications from firms to install them.
Centrica has previously said it was "extremely disappointed by the allegations" surrounding one of its contractors, Avarto Financial Solutions, and added it was conducting its own investigation.
Most of Centrica's bumper profits in 2022 came from its nuclear and oil and gas business, rather than its British Gas retails arm.
Due to competition rules, Centrica cannot sell its own gas at a discount to British Gas customers.
Centrica paid £1bn in tax on its profits and of that, £54m was a result of the windfall tax - called the Energy Profits Levy - which was introduced by the government last year. The tax is designed to recoup some of the "extraordinary" earnings made by firms recently and help lower energy bills for households.
The government's windfall tax only applies to profits made from extracting UK oil and gas. The current rate is 35%, but energy firms pay an additional 30% in corporation tax and a supplementary 10% rate, taking the total to 75%.
However, companies can reduce the amount of tax paid by factoring in losses or investments. It has meant in recent years, the likes of BP and Shell have paid little or no UK tax.

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£790,000 salary + £3.7 million bonus when people have been struggling to keep warm all winter, the world has gone mad.
 
£790,000 salary + £3.7 million bonus when people have been struggling to keep warm all winter, the world has gone mad.
If you don't reward the captains of industry then there wont be any captains of industry. It does state that the majority of the profit did not come from the retail arm.
 
It's a shame he couldn't get by on his salery plus a million imagine how much respect people would have had if he had given the other 2.7 million to charity to help those in need.
 
It's a shame he couldn't get by on his salery plus a million imagine how much respect people would have had if he had given the other 2.7 million to charity to help those in need.
We don't know his circumstances.

In my mind he earnt that money and deserves it. He works for it. If he wants to give to charity that is up to him, perhaps he does but decides to keep ir private.
 
We don't know his circumstances
You are right but it boils my piss every time I read about these people getting an obscene amount of money when people ar the bottom of the ladder are struggling to keep warm and feed their kids.
 
Circumstances....it must be quite an achievement to get yourself into such. His pay is much about taking pay and terms off the company workforce for the worse.
 
You are right but it boils my **** every time I read about these people getting an obscene amount of money when people ar the bottom of the ladder are struggling to keep warm and feed their kids.
But we only seem to have threads about energy bosses. What about supermarket bosses, transport bosses etc etc.

It is not the individual, a board would have agreed those terms.
 
But we only seem to have threads about energy bosses. What about supermarket bosses, transport bosses etc etc.

That is because its headline news on the BBC site if it were a supermarket boss i would have posted the same.

It is not the individual, a board would have agreed those terms.

I have no idea who decides what he should be paid, the amount is still obscene for all the reasons i have mentioned in the thread.

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That is because its headline news on the BBC site if it were a supermarket boss i would have posted the same.
I have no idea who decides what he should be paid, the amount is still obscene for all the reasons i have mentioned in the thread.

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You are right but it boils my **** every time I read about these people getting an obscene amount of money when people ar the bottom of the ladder are struggling to keep warm and feed their kids.
That's how society works, there always has, and always will be the upper and lower echelons of society. A lot of responsibility falls on the shoulders of a CEO of a company, to both shareholders and the workforce they are rewarded accordingly. There are surplus minions, but only a few who can take up a position of being a successful CEO. It's a case of supply and demand.
Is it right Ronaldo should get $245 million a year for kicking a bag of air around? It is how society works.
 
If we dont' give the captains of industry what they want then they will go on strike and we certainly can't have that.
 
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