A recent Freedom of Information request has revealed the highest professorial salaries endowed by Imperial are mostly attributed to males and Business School professors. As the College anonymises data when there are less than five earners in a salary band, the gender distribution is less clear for the second-highest pay band (£250,000- £299,999). But the department that stands out most is the Business School, with eight academics pocketing sums higher than £300,000. Only 55 staff on professor pay grade are employed in the Business School, compared to at least 252 in the faculty of Engineering. The data indicated most professors obtained such increases, as the £100,000-£149,999 pay band is the most populated in every faculty.