MM&K has conducted this Chair and Non-Executive Director Survey (Life in the Boardroom) for over 30 years. It is unique as data is collected directly from Directors themselves, rather than from company staff or annual reports. This provides a more accurate picture of board practices and pay.

For our 2025-2026 survey, we collected data from 167 participants representing a total of 435 board appointments. The 80+ report includes information on:

• Directors’ fees
• Time commitments
• Board effectiveness
• Board governance
• Other current Board issues, including use of technology, ESG and AI.

Who would benefit from the report?

• Current NEDs
• Those aspiring to become NEDs
• Boards and their HR departments seeking to recruit NEDs
• Those advising companies on the recruitment and remuneration of NEDs
• Organisations established to support businesses and their directors.

This year we have partnered with Board Excellence – a specialist board effectiveness and performance practice, Women on Boards – the leading network of board ready candidates and NEDs in FS – a forum for Non-executive Directors and Chairs of regulated financial services firms in the UK.

Click below if you are interested in purchasing the 2025-2026 report or would like to find out more.

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“Congratulations on a thorough and insightful survey. It fills in something of a gap in coverage of the numerous publications from the large firms in the remuneration consulting space.”

– Alan Giles, Chairman, Remuneration Consultants Group