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Monday 08 June 2015 5:02 am

How long would it take you to earn WPP boss Martin Sorrell’s annual pay?

By: Lynsey Barber

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The FTSE's best-paid boss will this week come face-to-face with shareholders over the size of his pay packet.

Sir Martin Sorrell, the chief of advertising group WPP, is pocketing a hefty – and some may say excessive – £43m. 

It's a 44 per cent rise on how much he took home the previous year, and means it would now take the average Londoner even longer to earn as much as Sorrell – an additional 383 years.

Type in your annual salary in the calculator below and work out just how long you'd have to work to earn the same amount – this year and last.

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