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FTSE 100 chiefs will by Wednesday have earned more this year than the average worker's annual wage.
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The traditional start of year reminder of the divergence between executive pay and that of the average worker: by lunchtime today, the High Pay Centre calculates that Britain's FTSE 100 bosses will have earned that same as the average worker will do in a calendar year.
Is this fair? Is it just reward? Or is it symptomatic of a dysfunctional economy? Before you leap to conclusions you might like to think about what factors have driven up executive pay, and whether or not any form of regulation could do anything about this in a way that doesn't come at the cost of lower growth and less efficient markets.
However, I think that it is quite a staggering statistic.