Bucher's remuneration includes a basic salary of £700,000 and maximum bonuses equivalent to 350% of salary, or £2.45m, in his first year, which drops to 250% of salary in subsequent years.
Remuneration consists of two parts: a basic salary and a bonus.
This year, Spring was paid a basic salary of £305,000 as part of a total remuneration package of £378,000 to the end of September, according to the company's annual report and accounts published today.
Hunt received a basic salary of £396,000, a bonus of £54,000 and total remuneration of £497,000.
Fry, who this month announced he is to stand down after just over two years in the top role, received a basic salary of £525,000 – unchanged from 2009 – and a total remuneration package of just over £1m.
"The manager's basic remuneration package was reduced considerably, replaced instead by a performance-based contract, with several bonus initiatives, which included developing young players into actual transfer targets.
If two people are doing the same task and earning the same basic remuneration on average earnings, the total tax paid to the state for the employee is about £2,000 a year more than for a self-employed contractor, or as much as £3,000 if they are working through their own company.
At the same time, the remuneration system for GPs was changed to a basic capitation fee, differentiated by age and deprivation area and supplemented by a fee-for-service system for each consultation.
At the same time, the remuneration system for GPs was changed to a system with a basic capitation fee, differentiated by age and deprivation area and supplemented by a fee-for-service system for each consultation [ 16, 71].
