Southern Water - The Company that just keeps taking
Director Salaries and Bonuses
A Bloodsucker Culture
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One of the most appalling and disgusting features of the Great Southern Water Bills Rip-Off is the way in which Southern Water’s directors and senior executives have, for many years, awarded themselves not only vast salaries but also humungous bonuses. And all over the years while they mismanaged Southern’s operations and finances and polluted the environment, all of which led to their current bills rip-off programme against customers.
If that self-reward build-up over years was not bad enough, they have fought tooth-and-nail to ensure Southern’s boardroom largesse continues. When finally in 2025 the government was embarrassed enough politically by Southern Water’s bloodsucker culture, public anger and savage media commentary, it got Ofwat to force Southern to suspend annual bonuses for its top executives – but only for one year!!! Moreover, the temporary block was actually in response to yet another Southern Water pollution case in 2024 and not specifically against the bonuses obscenity.
Southern Water’s reaction to having its director bonuses temporarily blocked? In August 2025, it simply raised the Chief Executive’s annual salary from £580,000 to £687,000 and his annual bonus from £184,000 to £691,000. So, after his 1-year bonus suspension, he will have not really been punished financially at all, far from it.
