The native authority with essentially the most staff incomes greater than £100,000 has been named and one London council took the highest spot. Westminster Metropolis Council had 50 staff incomes greater than six figures between 2021 and 2022 – six greater than the earlier 12 months.
Essex Council took second place with 45 and Haringey took third with 44, evaluation by the TaxPayers’ Alliance confirmed. Based on the analysis, Westminster Metropolis’s chief bureaucrat, Stuart Love, additionally bagged a beneficiant pay packet of £276,000.
The TaxPayers’ Alliance seemed on the take-home pay, pension pots, perks and bonuses of 1000’s of council staff throughout the UK and estimated not less than 2,759 within the nation obtained greater than £100,000 in whole remuneration, of which 721 earnt £150,000 or extra. It mentioned the best way worker remuneration is reported varies considerably from council to council and warned the overall variety of massive earners might be a lot larger.
Ealing Council topped London’s checklist of high-earning officers with its chief official pocketing £325ok for 2021-2022, the research confirmed. Guildford’s boss was topped the best within the UK at £607ok. The TaxPayers’ Alliance mentioned there had been a major enhance within the variety of native authorities which did not publish their annual assertion of accounts for 2021-22.
The statutory deadline for publishing a draft was July 31 and at present, 47 native authorities have didn’t publish even draft unaudited accounts for the earlier monetary 12 months. This compares to 25 native authorities who had didn’t publish their accounts on the identical date in 2022, which the suppose tank known as “a severe year-on-year deterioration”.
John O’Connell, chief government of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, mentioned: “Taxpayers going through file council tax rises wish to make sure they’re getting worth for cash from their native authority management. Many authorities proceed with extraordinarily beneficiant pay and perks, together with bonuses and golden goodbyes, whereas native individuals are going through a monetary squeeze. Residents can use these figures to carry their native city corridor bosses to account.”
Westminster Metropolis Council disputes the figures and claimed solely 42 staff earnt over the brink. Chief Govt, Stuart Love, mentioned: “Westminster Metropolis Council is a high-profile native authority with distinctive tasks on the coronary heart of the capital.
“As such, we have to recruit one of the best expertise for managing inside a fancy organisation whose work includes partnership with central authorities, the multi-billion economic system of the West End and supporting round 1 / 4 of one million residents. The salaries paid mirror the abilities wanted to guide the authority.”
Ealing Council was approached for remark however did give one by the point of publishing.
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