The number of public sector workers earning more than £150,000 a year has risen by 6 per cent over the past year, new details showed today.
Some 552 individuals had packages worth more than the threshold in the latest list released by the government.
That was up from 518 in the snapshot from September 2019, despite the country being thrown into chaos since then by the coronavirus pandemic.
Top of the list once again was HS2 chief Mark Thurston, whose total remuneration was worth between £620,000 and £625,000.
That is more than four times the salary of Prime Minister Boris Johnson - although it has not changed since last year.