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Trevor Mather, 50 Chief executive, Auto Trader

AUTO Trader’s boss took home £ 2.6m last year – a 170pc increase on the year before.

Trevor Mather’s salary of £546,000 and bonus of £ 412,000 were in line with the year before, but he also got £1.6m worth of long term incentive shares granted in 2015.

He joined Auto Trader, which owns the UK’s largest car classified site, in 2013. Shares have risen around 79pc since Auto Trader listed in 2015 at 235p, closing yesterday 0.6pc up, or 2.6p, at 423.7p.