These are the top 25 best-paying companies in the UK
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.”
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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.
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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.