Today the Government published a list of "most" senior civil servants paid more than £150,000 a year (Excel format 19.9K, on the Cabinet Office website), as part of a drive which it says is intended to improve transparency, increase accountability and deliver better value for money. The list gives an "annual pay rate" for each person which includes taxable benefits and allowances.
Alondside the list, a letter from the Prime Minister to Cabinet members (on the Cabinet Office website) says that:
- Names, grades and annual pay rates for most senior civil servants and and non-departmental public bodies with salaries higher than the "lowest permissable in pay band 1 of the senior civil service" (currently £58,200 a year) will be published from September 2010; and
- "Organograms" for central government departments and agencies that include all staff positions will be published from October 2010.
The Cabinet Office says it will publish organisation charts of its senior civil servants with contact details later this week, which will presumably give some indication of what the "organograms" for all departments are going to look like.
For anyone interested in where the money actually goes on senior salaries in the public sector, a good place to start is a report on senior pay in the public sector commissioned by the previous Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, covered on this blog by my colleague Rachel Sharp. The report found that:
- More than 25,000 people in the public sector earn more than £100,000 a year;
- Around 4,900 consultant medical staff have total NHS earnings of more than £150,000 a year; and
- Outside the medical sector, around 700 other public sector employees earn more than £150,000 a year. These include around 200 members of the judiciary, 120 local authority executives and around 90 senior civil servants.
Attacking the pay of senior front-line medical staff is unlikely to be a priority of the new government, but that is where the bulk of the spending is.
To read up on senior pay in the public sector, read Rachel Sharp's article on the most recent pay reviews for the relevant employee groups on XpertHR (subscription required).
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