Council chiefs earn £100,000 each
Nine Bradford council chiefs are earning more than £100,000 a year each.
Pressure group TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) last night produced a list of all town hall "fat cats" earning six-figure salaries which revealed nationally the number of top paid post is increasing.
In 2005/6 there were 645 local authority bosses with a salary of more than £100,000 compared with 818 for 2006/7.
Jo Miller, Bradford Council's deputy chief executive, said the Council had recently reduced the amount of money it spends on senior managers' salaries.
In 2006 Bradford Council slimmed down from three assistant chief executives and 12 directors to one deputy chief executive and seven directors.
Miss Miller said: "Bradford Council is responsible for making sure that more than £400 million of national and local taxpayers' money is spent wisely during 2008-09, to regenerate the district and provide services. Bradford Council's wages are comparable with salaries for similar jobs in other councils. To make sure Bradford Council continues to be successful in attracting substantial public and private sector investment we need to attract the best and brightest people.
"When senior salaries in the private sector are compared to senior salaries in the public sector, the taxpayer gets value for money".
The average pay package for the 818 on the list was more than £120,000 - nearly five times the starting wage of a police constable.
TaxPayers' Alliance chief executive Matthew Elliott insisted such pay bonanzas were not acceptable when councils failed to deliver value for money
He said: "Families and pensioners are struggling with the demands of yet another council tax rise, and councils owe it to them to cut back on executive pay hikes.
5:37am Friday 28th March 2008
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