Charities that rely on hundreds of volunteers to provide end-of-life care are paying staff up to £160,000 a year.
An investigation by The Times has found that 240 hospice bosses and senior consultants are earning more than £60,000 a year, with at least 25 earning six-figure sums.
Medical charities have come under pressure recently over executives’ large salaries. Nine senior staff at Cancer Research UK earn more than £150,000 and Marie Stopes International, a sexual health charity, paid Simon Cooke, its chief executive, up to £380,000 last year.
Hospices of comparable size have huge discrepancies in the salaries they pay. Only a third of about 250 hospices in England and Wales pay any employee more than £60,000 a year but those that do spend up