{"id":406638,"date":"2026-04-19T12:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406638\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T12:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:51:13","slug":"bankers-and-builders-lead-2025-ceo-pay-surge-as-bonus-caps-are-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406638\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankers and builders lead 2025 CEO pay surge as bonus caps are scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Report from the European Banking Authority revealed that 73 people in banks and investment firms in Ireland earned more than \u20ac1m&#8230; just five of those high earners were women\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cash is king when it comes to top salaries for\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/22b17d78-be90-4653-a4d9-70a1b843192b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Cash is king when it comes to top salaries for<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Permanent TSB CEO Eamonn Crowley will hope that new Austrian owner BAWAG \u2013 with its reputation for rigorous cost-cutting \u2013 is on board with his rising salary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was up 19.6pc last year to \u20ac712,935 but this was way behind most others on the list thanks to the huge bonus and incentive plan pay-outs that many of the CEOs at Ireland\u2019s listed companies enjoyed in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Report from the European Banking Authority revealed that 73 people in banks and investment firms in Ireland earned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13395,7863,72,6353,61,60,10726,1899],"class_list":{"0":"post-406638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-allied-irish-banks","9":"tag-bank-of-ireland","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-fearghal-oconnor","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-michael-oleary","15":"tag-ryanair"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}