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Thursday 23 May 2019 11:32 am  |  Updated:  Wednesday 05 June 2019 8:28 am

These are the top 25 best-paying companies in the UK

By: James Booth

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A report released today has revealed that the UK's 25 highest paying company's offer staff between £61,000 and £90,000 as a median compensation package.

The list by job site Glassdoor is dominated by finance and tech firms, three of which have their headquarters in the UK.

John Lamphiere, EMEA managing director at Glassdoor, said: “It is no surprise that multinational tech and finance firms dominate the list, given that both industries compete fiercely for talent, especially when it comes to tech roles.

"While salary and bonuses might get people in the door, it is more likely to be culture and career progression that help people stick around in the long term.”

Read more: Here's how much you could earn as a software engineer

Here are the UK's 25 best-paying companies:

Company Median total comp (£) Median base salary (£) 
Credit Suisse 90,000 82,000
SAP 90,000 66,000
Deutsche Bank 89,500 80,000
Facebook 89,000 74,000
Standard Chartered  85,000 76,000
Salesforce 85,000 66,806
Dell 84,825 62,500
Oracle 80,000 66,250
UBS 79,000 75,000
Google 78,000 62,500
Goldman Sachs 74,000 58,000
Cisco Systems 72,500 59,000
McKinsey & Co 70,000 65,000
Bank of America 70,000 64,500
Microsoft 68,000 61,300
Investec 67,500 62,500
Just Eat 66,500 62,500
Societe Generale 66,500 61,000
Babylon Health 65,000 65,000
Blackrock 65,000 57,000
Morgan Stanley 64,000 55,500
Veritas 62,500 60,400
Rackspace 62,500 58,950
Octopus 61,500 49,000
Bloomberg 61,000 58,000

The list comes after UK wages rose yet again in March, according to the Office for National Statistics, climbing 3.2 per cent year on year.

That left the average UK weekly salary at £498 per week, or £465 compared to 2015 currency. That iss till £8 lower than the £473 recorded before the financial crisis.

Glassdoor's latest list shows Facebook has fallen three places to fourth spot since June 2018, when it topped the list with a slightly higher median salary of £90,000 and £2,000 lower median base pay of £72,000.

Read more: Revealed: What candidates should look for in a job offer

Deutsche Bank placed second with median compensation of £86,500, compared to £89,500 this time around, which put it in third spot.

Credit Suisse has hiked its salaries for 2019 to offer a median total compensation of £90,000 to put it at the very top of the list, compared to £85,000 it paid this time last year.

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