Pay | Google staff earn more than 7 TIMES UK average salary

The Telegraph reported that Google paid UK employees an average of £226,000 in 2018 on the back of impressive share pay-outs that came as a result of booming stock prices.

According to ONS figures which were published last month, the average combined salary in the UK for men and women was £29,009. This meant that Google employees earnt more than seven times (7.7) the average UK salary in 2018.

The internet behemoth paid its 3,658 employees almost £390million in salaries at the same time that the UK headcount grew by around 400.

The increased wage bill was a 26% increase on the £656million paid to staff in 2017, The Guardian reported.