Transparency information

Staff data

Pay transparency statement

The Council publishes in its Annual Statement of Accounts:

  • salaries, expenses and allowances
  • fees and allowances
  • benefits in kind
  • compensation for loss of office
  • pension contributions
  • total remuneration excluding and including pension contributions

The accounts also show the budgets held by each senior officer, and changes to Chief Officers pay from the previous year.

View the Annual Statement of Accounts (PDF)

Senior staff

Post Post Holder Posts Managed
Chief Executive Jeff Stack 550
Director of Finance Sandra Beck 286
Director of Environmental Services Peter Linkson 181
Head of Legal Services Nathalie Boateng 6
Head of Planning and Development Douglas Cooper 19
Head of Support Services Stephen Billington 10

View the senior management organisation chart (PDF)

Pay multiples

The relationship (pay multiple) between the salary paid to the highest paid chief officer and other staff is calculated in the following way:

Post Salary Lowest full time equivalent (FTE) salary The arithmetic mean FTE salary paid to all staff The median FTE salary paid to staff
Chief Executive £117,689  £5.90 per hour Yearly salary = £5.90 * 37 hours per week * 52 weeks = £11,351.60 £23,938 £19,778
Pay multiple   10.37 4.92 5.95

Returning officer's scale of expenses

View the returning officer's scale of expenses (PDF)

Council's annual pay gap report

Gender pay gap (January 2024)