Tuesday 20 July 2010

Salaries at the top of our County Council

Some are available on the CCC web site.

£170,000 at the very top, £125,000 to the six in the next tier down.

Then what : £75,000 to the next tier of say twenty

And then perhaps £60,000 to the next tier of say fifty one of which would be our Head of Highways.

If that's anywhere near correct that's:

Top £170,000

next tier total £750,000

next tier total £1,500,000

next tier total £3,000,000 (Head of Highways level)

Grand total salaries of £5.5 million for the administrators - none of them doers !

Has anyone come across the salary structure of a typical County/Borough Council

Who other than themselves checks that they deliver a good job.

The County Councillors don't seem to - I would have thought this would be one of their important jobs - making sure the system is working efficiently.

On some levels it isn't ; on others like social services, teaching, elderly care, possibly the police - different money pot - (too much paper work), we know people are working their socks off.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

All aboard the gravy train!

It always amazes me to see public sector workers striking for better pay and conditions when they already have it far, far better than most of their private sector equivalents.

And don't get me started on the pensions...

Geoff Dellow said...

Most public sector workers probably get a rough deal.

If nothing else, their hard work is rarely recognised. Their reward is simply - self esteem - they know they've done the best job possible in the circumstances.

It's the people at the top of the tree I question. Are they worth it?