HSBC arch gets £800,000 climb Business

Michael Geoghegan earns £1m a year at present. Photograph: Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images

HSBC"s arch senior manager Michael Geoghegan is on march for an estimated £800,000 further to his £1m-a-year income as a outcome of allowances handed to him when he relocated to Hong Kong.

The behind doorway compensate climb for Geoghegan follows protests from shareholders after the bank canvassed them for accede to enlarge his salary. Even so, the bank still pulpy forward and offering him a compensate climb – the distance of that was not disclosed – that he rejected.

The bank"s chairman, Stephen Green, done it transparent when the bank published a 24% tumble in annual increase on Monday that the goal was to safeguard he perceived a compensate climb by this time subsequent year. Green, who has personal grant pot of £19.1m, argued that Geoghegan was not in the tip 10 best-paid arch management team of FTSE 100 firms and his income ranked fourth out of the bosses of the UK"s 6 vital banks. "So there is a little work to do with the shareholders and we intend to do it," Green said.

The bank"s annual inform shows that financial executive Douglas Flint did not exclude the £100,000-a-year climb he was awarded to his £700,000 salary.

The big climb for Geoghegan is formed on a £300,000 a year compensate climb the bank is handing him "in approval of the relocation to Hong Kong and the compared bound costs of vital that will be incurred". The annual inform additionally creates transparent that the compensate climb is apart to "housing and alternative benefits in kind that are normal inside of this location". While the bank does not divulge the distance of these additional allowances they could run to at slightest £500,000, formed on the payments perceived by dual alternative residence directors who are formed in the region.

Geoghegan"s sum compensate together with benefits for 2009 reached £5.6m. This enclosed a £4m reward he intends to palm to charity. The tangible distance of his stipend will not be well known until the announcement of subsequent year"s annual inform and the bank forked out that the idealisation goal is for him to live in the HSBC"s Middle East chairman"s house.

A HSBC orator said: "This sort of stipend is not surprising for the poignant shake concerned in relocating abroad together with carrying family members vital in dual continents as a result."

The compensate climb for Geoghegan follows the avowal by the bank that his boardroom co-worker Stuart Gulliver was the top paid worker last year, reception some-more than £10m for using the rarely essential investment promissory note arm.

Another residence part of was additionally handed a compensate rise. Sandy Flockhart, who is formed in Asia, enjoyed a climb in his annual income to HK$10m from HK$8m (£662,000).