CRH top five share €6.5m pay package

FIVE executive directors of the building materials giant CRH shared nearly €6.5 million in salaries and bonuses last year.

Long-serving chief executive Liam O’Mahony saw his annual pay dip by €114,000 to just under €2 million, the company’s annual report for 2005 reveals.

Mr O’Mahony was paid a basic salary of €1.15m, up on the previous year by around 10%, and a performance bonus of nearly €750,000. When other perks and benefits are added in, the chief executive earned €1.92m. The pay deal is 55 times the annual average wage of CRH employees.