South Yorkshire council chiefs’ pay packages total almost £750,000 in a year – figures show
The chief executives of South Yorkshire’s four cash-strapped councils were given almost £750,000 in renumeration packages in a year, figures have shown.
An annual ‘town hall rich list’ compiled by the Taxpayers’ Alliance campaign group also revealed that 44 members of staff across Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley councils had a package worth over £100,000 a year when the data was captured in 2013-2014.
Rotherham Politics 
When ever anybody criticises these obscenely large salaries. The leaders of the four SY councils will be singing from the same hymn sheet and the tune goes, ” we have to pay these high salaries to get the right calibre of staff!”
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This became a common feature across the country over the last two decades as council chief officers made the recommendations in the reports that set their own salaries and councillors meekly voted for them as they did not wish to criticise the officers. Weaklings just endorsed the crooks and some councillors who opposed were denigrated.
This is not a South Yorkshire disease it is a public sector disease.
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They would say that you have to pay to get the right stuff – er, look what we got on that basis!!
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Kimber and Thacker didn’t see any problem with the high salaries for quality staff policy and remember we also had the highest paid councillors in SY and look at the dross that attracted.
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Let’s be honest here, if you were getting those pay and benefits, would you feel ashame and make charitable donations to worthy causes or take as many holidays as you can. Stop bitching and except some people have all the luck.
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When you have many of the recipients of these obscenely, high salaries on remuneration panels, it becomes a case of you scratch my back and……………
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Lazy reporting by the Star – 4 FoI’s would have come up with current actual numbers.
Instead they reported sometimes out of date figures.
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whoops
instead they reported the out of date figures collected by the Tax Payers Alliance.
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– works both ways – buying compliance
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Are the Tax Payers Alliance inaccurate? I am aware of excessively high salaries across the public sector for chief officers and poor salaries and increasing insecurity for those at the bottom with an increase in the use of Zero hours contracts and minimum wage with no pension contribution.
The new class, the precariat are growing in both the private and the public sectors. This will end bad.
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I am sure that the figures were accurate at the time they were collected; and are really quite interesting – for example,
Rotherham had 4 staff members earning ≥£100,000 , Doncaster 12, and Barnsley 15.
Both Rotherham and Barnsley each had one earning ≥£150,000, Doncaster had 2.
data here:
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/taxpayersalliance/pages/5709/attachments/original/1447091450/psrlcouncils.xls?1447091450
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Sheffield would have a dozen or more I guess…
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yes but it is not directly comparable,
And compared with the eye-watering numbers for Birmingham City Council or Wandsworth Borough Council …
Just why does Tory-held Wandsworth (with a similar population to Doncaster) need to pay 2staff over £300,000, 6 over £200,000, 14 over £150,000 and 46 over £100,000 , when the GLA has responsibility for some services in the borough.
London Allowances aren’t usually that good.
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If they were doing a good job, I don’t think people would be so bothered. But you also have to consider that executive pay to the average worker has accelerated the last 30 years, its obscene. But companies and the country have never been so badly run
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