Notes to the financial statements
10 Employees
A. Aggregate remuneration
The aggregate remuneration and associated costs of Group employees were:
|
2009
Total
£m |
2008
Total
£m |
| Wages and salaries |
978.8 |
930.8 |
| Social security costs |
69.1 |
62.3 |
| Pension costs |
67.2 |
103.1 |
| Share-based payments |
14.3 |
29.0 |
| Employee welfare and other personnel costs |
37.8 |
35.7 |
| Ex-gratia costs |
8.4 |
10.5 |
| Capitalised staff costs |
(21.3) |
(20.9) |
| Aggregate remuneration |
1,154.3 |
1,150.5 |
| Exceptional redundancy costs (see note 5) |
11.1 |
– |
| Exceptional pension credit (see note 5) |
(231.3) |
(95.0) |
| Total |
934.1 |
1,055.5 |
Details of key management compensation are given in note 30E.
B. Average number of employees
|
2009 |
2008 |
| UK stores |
|
|
| – management and supervisory categories |
5,528 |
5,267 |
| – other |
63,969 |
62,820 |
| UK head office |
|
|
| – management and supervisory categories |
2,577 |
2,599 |
| – other |
1,036 |
927 |
| Overseas |
4,754 |
3,776 |
| Total average number of employees |
77,864 |
75,389 |
If the number of hours worked was converted on the basis of a normal working week, the equivalent average number of full-time employees would have been 54,153 (last year 52,276).
C. Directors’ emoluments
Emoluments of directors of the Company are summarised below. Further details are given in the Remuneration report.
|
2009
£000 |
2008
£000 |
| Aggregate emoluments |
6,240 |
3,930 |
The emoluments exclude payments to former directors of £252,000 (last year £262,000).