Number of female high-earners on £160,000 or more leaps 40 per cent in 20 years
THE number of women among top British earners is up 40 per cent in 20 years.
They account for one in six of the 310,000 taxpayers paid at least £160,000, according to an Institute of Fiscal Studies think-tank.
And one in ten of the very highest earners in the UK, who get at least £650,000 a year, is female.
Robert Joyce, deputy director from the IFS, said: “Women may make up only about 17 per cent of the top one per cent today, but that share has risen from 12 per cent in 2000/2001.”
Among the best-paid women within the public sector is the UK’s top cop, Met Commissioner Cressida Dick, whose salary was £234,992 last year.
No tax for four in 10
RECORD numbers of people are earning too little to pay any tax, HMRC figures show.
More than four in ten have incomes under the £12,500 a year personal allowance threshold.
The figure, up sharply on 2010, means the top one per cent of earners — those on more than £160,000 a year — pay a quarter of all income tax.
But experts say it is risky to rely so heavily on 310,000 people out of a population of 54million.
Britain’s top-earning female exec is Bet365 founder Denise Coates, whose salary last year was £265million.
But the vast majority of those in the elite 0.1 per cent group are middle-aged men who live in London, figures reveal.
Mr Joyce added: “The highest-income people are over-represented in the South East.”
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