Carne, who earns £675,000 a year, had been in line for a £30,000 bonus this year but came under fire for being on holiday in Cornwall during the disruption on the network.
As an example of how it might work, someone who earns £20,000 a year and also received £250 in savings interest will not have to pay tax on the latter sum as it is well within their £1,000 savings allowance.
Barclays has agreed a £18,000-a-week shares payout for its chief executive Antony Jenkins, who earns a salary of £1.1m a year.
He cites Lisa Opie, who he says earns more than £200,000 as controller for business, knowledge and daytime but also has a cafe business.
He earns about £150,000 a week and his private fleet of cars includes a Rolls-Royce, a Bentley, a Hummer, a BMW and two Porsches.
The chief executive, David Higgins, who earns £560,000, announced in February that he and other board members would forgo any bonus in 2012 amid rail performance issues, although it came after pressure from the transport secretary, Justine Greening, and wider public anger over bonus culture in general.
On average, a university graduate earns £100,000 more during his or her lifetime – net of tax – than someone who leaves school at 18.
He earns in a few days as much as Guinea defenders, Fode Camara and Abdoulaye Cissé, earn in a year.
The chancellor, who earns £138,000 and has a £2m stake in his father's luxury wallpaper company, Osborne & Little, also said that his wife claimed the benefit for their two children.
Carne, who earns £675,000 a year, was in line for a £30,000 bonus this year but came under fire for being on holiday in Cornwall during the disruption on the network.
When confronted with a choice between two treatment pathways in equipoise – one that earns the doctor no money and the other with a fat fee attached – that conflict is stark.
