A dozen Jewish charities pay their chief executives more than £100,000 each, according to a Jewish Chronicle investigation into executive pay.

Leaders at the top 25 Jewish charities earn a combined total of £2.5m each year, with Jewish Care, Norwood and World Jewish Relief among those paying six figure salaries. A full list is available on the Jewish Chronicle’s website.

The investigation also found that Jewish charities with an income of more than £10m spent less than 0.5 per cent of their income on the chief executive’s salary. Those with an income between £2m and £7m spend an average of 4 per cent on the CEO.

Jewish Chronicle compared salaries of those at UK charities with similar US organisations and found that: “At smaller charities it is clear British salaries are outstripped by US equivalents.”

Last week the Belfast Telegraph published an investigation into chief executive pay in Northern Ireland.

Last month the NCVO pay inquiry, which was set up following national media scrutiny of executive pay, recommended that charities prominently publish details of executive pay on their websites.