Paul Dacre: Best Paid British Newspaper Editor EVER .. And all he does is spew out far right hatred.
Paul Dacre’s pay packet has increased by more than 50% to almost £2.5m , bolstering his status as Britain’s best-paid newspaper editor. The editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail , Mail on Sunday and Mail Online has received £1.45m in salary in 2017 and £68,000 in taxable benefits. The benefits include a company car with a taxable value of almost £34,000 and a vehicle and fuel allowance of more than £25,000. The 69-year old, who is on a 12-month rolling contract with the parent company, Daily Mail & General Trust, was awarded an £856,000 payout as part of the company’s long-term investment plan (LTIP). Dacre was moved from DMGT’s annual bonus scheme to the LTIP in 2015 to make his remuneration “more directly linked to the overall success of the business” . His total remuneration of £2.37m – up 56% on £1.5m in 2016 when he had yet to receive his first LTIP payout – follows a 20% slump in DMGT’s share price after the c...