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Senior council staff paid £100,000 or more, taken from each council's published list
Council staff paid £100,000 or more, from published lists
2,063
Across 272 of the 307 councils that publish a salary list. Middle (median) per council: 4.
Ranked by the total number of staff in the £100,000-and-above bands. Big unitaries and county councils tend to appear because they employ the most people. 10 councils have not yet published their list, so they are not in this ranking.
How we got this: under the Local Government Transparency Code, each council publishes staff salaries in £5,000 bands, starting at £50,000. We add up every band that starts at £100,000 or higher. Pension and benefits are not included.
By law, every council has to publish how many of its staff earn £50,000 or more, in £5,000 bands. This card adds up all the bands that start at £100,000 or higher to give a count of senior staff for each council.
Only councils that publish a full salary list are included. Size matters a lot — a big unitary with tens of thousands of staff will have more £100k roles than a small district.
Yes. The count includes any member of staff whose published salary band starts at £100,000 or higher. It does not include pension contributions or benefits.
Not every council has published a salary list we can read yet. The page shows how many are included. Some councils that do publish a list have no staff in the £100,000-and-above bands.