Friday 1 February 2008

Gis us a job

The Grauniad tells us :

The average local authority is employing over nine times as many people on £50,000-plus packages as ten years ago—66 people in 2006–07 compared with 20 people in 2001-02 and 7 people in 1996-97.
By contrast, in the economy as a whole, the number of people earning more than £50,000 has increased by less than three times over the past ten years.
The average local authority spent over £4 million employing people on £50,000-plus remuneration packages last year.
The total bill for council middle and senior managers on £50,000-plus remuneration packages was almost £2 billion last year almost £1 in every £11 of total council tax revenues.
The remuneration of local authority middle and senior management is racing past that of MPs. There were 12,600 local authority middle and senior managers being paid at least £60,000 last year—equal to or exceeding the £60,277 salary of MPs in November 2006.

As a proportion - 66 jobs from 20 - that may not seem a big hill of beans but when set against the overall, the rate of increase is high. Obviously, there would be expectations that pay will rise but this is well outside inflation. The paper also reports that they have advertisements for another 91 local authority jobs set at over 50 grand. I reckon I know where family-employer Conway will be aiming his c.v. They might even take on his self-appointed "Queen of Sloan" son as some sort of diversity leader.

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