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A total of 47 council staff in Northern Ireland received financial packages worth more than £100,000 last year, according to a new report.
Among those listed were eight officials at Mid and East Antrim Borough Council, seven others who work for Belfast City and six at Ards and North Down.
The figures include pension contributions and expenses, and have risen from 26 council staff on £100,000-plus in 2018/19.
The Town Hall Rich List 2021, produced by right-wing pressure group the TaxPayers Alliance, listed 2,802 UK council employees whose total remuneration exceeded £100,000 in 2019-20.
In Northern Ireland, the total earnings stood at £5,551,437 - up from £3,197,834 in 2018/19.
For the fourth year running, the biggest remuneration package (£170,288) went to Belfast s chief executive Suzanne Wylie and included a £142,500 salary and £27,788 pension contribution.
Revealed: The council bosses earning £100k, or more, a year A TOTAL of 40 Essex County Council employees took home £100,000 or more last year, it has been revealed. The authority was found to have the most employees receiving remuneration in excess of £100,000 in the UK, five more than the previous year. The figures, published in the TaxPayers’ Alliance’s 14th Town Hall Rich List, analysed data from councils across the country.
Boss - Gavin Jones is Essex County Council’s chief executive Essex County Council’s chief executive Gavin Jones brought home the most money with a salary of £196,950 and a pension of £31,709.
But it also gave a £130,000 pay-off to retired chief executive Harry Catherall. Lancashire County Council paid 11 people more than £100,000 in 2019/20, no change from 12 months earlier.
Hyndburn Council has two high-paid staff - its chief executive David Welsby on a total of £123,103 and his deputy Jo McIntyre on £106,897.
Burnley Counil had just one £100,000-plus employee, chief executive Mick Cartledge, who took home £120,013 in pay and expenses.
Ribble Valley Council paid chief executive Marshal Scott £126.438 in salary and expenses.
Pendle Council paid just one officer more than £100,000 - chief executive Dean Langton with £104,740 in wages and expenses. The figures are in The Taxpayers Alliance annual Town Hall Rich List 2021, which records no figures for Rossendale Council.
Revealed: The council bosses earning £100k, or more, a year A TOTAL of 40 Essex County Council employees took home £100,000 or more last year, it has been revealed. The authority was found to have the most employees receiving remuneration in excess of £100,000 in the UK, five more than the previous year. The figures, published in the TaxPayers’ Alliance’s 14th Town Hall Rich List, analysed data from councils across the country.
Boss - Gavin Jones is Essex County Council’s chief executive Essex County Council’s chief executive Gavin Jones brought home the most money with a salary of £196,950 and a pension of £31,709.