ONS figures were used in preference to those reported by the Quality and Outcomes Framework, as the latter are based on remuneration figures for primary health care providers and allow for some reductions in target population figures.
Listed firms have to publish a breakdown of executive remuneration, including a single total pay figure.
RBS also revealed that 77 staff earn more than £1m a year remuneration - a figure that includes fixed pay, pensions, and long-term incentives, down from 95 in 2012.
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However, the president made it clear over the weekend that he is unhappy with Wall Street's rapid return to six or seven-figure remuneration payouts.
At Paddy Power Betfair, 30% of investors voted against the remuneration report, although the figure rises to 40% if deliberate abstentions are included.
Two of its recommendations have been included in a parliamentary bill due to take effect in October: One would give shareholders the right to a binding vote on executive pay every three years; another would require companies to fix a single figure on executive remuneration, consolidating the confusing mix of salary, bonuses and shares that has complicated — some say obfuscated — the issue.
Cable, who introduced binding shareholder votes on executive pay and the standardised single figure for chief executives' pay, said remuneration remained a "toxic issue".
In the final quarter of the year, the proportion of revenue allocated to remuneration fell from a typical figure of 40% to just 11%.
At the same time, the green electricity privilege, as an alternative form of direct marketing, was largely replaced while the option 'other forms of direct marketing' without remuneration is practically irrelevant (see Figure 2).
