The "loyalty bonus" element, however, seems straightforwardly wrong.
"The market for the skills required is global, with high salaries and a strong bonus element," they wrote.
Executives who fail to demonstrate that they have actively worked to hit the ambitious diversity targets which Channel 4 has set itself will find the "variable pay" - or bonus – element of their salaries cut.
There are other instant-access accounts worth checking out, such as the online saver from Alliance & Leicester, which pays 3.15 per cent on a minimum balance of £1,000, again with a bonus element in the first year.
Staff are under pressure to meet monthly targets to get the bonus element of their pay, he says, and will even work on customers' children, saying, "Get your dad to buy you this; tell your mum to get you that".
The Centrica boss was due more than £2m last year, without getting any payments under an earlier LTIS scheme, and the company said he was donating a bonus element worth £851,000 of that to charity.
There have, of course, been plenty of highs too, most notably during that fevered first two years in Test cricket when Monty was briefly styled as a wonderfully appealing bonus element: a left-arm spinner with a beautifully rhythmic action, all menacing snap and dip, and also a figure of slightly queasy celebrity, English cricket's own high-kicking, perma-smiling straggly-bearded mascot.
In a speech in Singapore in the early hours of this morning, the Governor of the Bank of England has said it is time to look at clawing back the overall pay of bankers in the event of wrong-doing, not just the bonus element.
The main cash-and-bonus element of Sorrell's total remuneration – excluding his Leap award and pension payment - fell 30% year on year.
However, to solve the bonus contest element, you will need to see some heavy outlines in the grid, which cannot be reproduced electronically.
This story is a bonus online element for the package on science entrepreneurship that appears in the 12 June issue of Science.
