v3.25.4
Directors and Staff Costs
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Compensation Related Costs [Abstract]  
Directors and Staff Costs

5. Directors and staff costs

Staff costs, including Directors’ remuneration, during the year for the Group were as follows:

 

 

Year ended December 31,

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

$000s

 

 

$000s

 

Wages and salaries

 

 

19,254

 

 

 

19,434

 

Social security costs

 

 

1,673

 

 

 

1,744

 

Other pension costs

 

 

748

 

 

 

666

 

Share-based payments charge

 

 

8,074

 

 

 

16,307

 

Total aggregate remuneration

 

 

29,749

 

 

 

38,151

 

 

The decrease in costs for share-based payments is largely due to credit of previously accrued expense for those grants forfeited or cancelled due to reduction in number of employees, as well as lower fair value of 2025 issued grants.