Eye Watering Salaries

[Neath_Jack]

Not bad if you can get the work...

These salaries justified? When you consider that there isn't any money about? What we saying?

We know sportsmen are paid ridiculous amounts, that goes without saying, but what about some of these? Especially when some of those organisations are massively underperforming, Betsi Cadwaladr especially.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/wales-public-sector-rich-list-26293907

 

[exiledclaseboy]

I didn’t realise final salary pensions were still a thing.

 

[JackSomething]

I'm a little shocked that the average public sector pay is £32k. A quick Google reveals that average pay in Wales across all sectors is just under £34k.

As someone who works with people looking for employment, there must be some big salaries at the top end skewing that figure.

 

[Neath_Jack]

I'm a little shocked that the average public sector pay is £32k. A quick Google reveals that average pay in Wales across all sectors is just under £34k.

As someone who works with people looking for employment, there must be some big salaries at the top end skewing that figure.

What sector are you looking for employment for your service users?

 

[Manselton Jack]

I didn’t realise final salary pensions were still a thing.

I didn't think so either, they've gone from local government & the civil service as far as I'm aware??

 

[exiledclaseboy]

I didn't think so either, they've gone from local government & the civil service as far as I'm aware??

Well mine has I know that much.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

I'm a little shocked that the average public sector pay is £32k. A quick Google reveals that average pay in Wales across all sectors is just under £34k.

As someone who works with people looking for employment, there must be some big salaries at the top end skewing that figure.

Many in the public sector are earning barely above minimum wage.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

In answer to the original question, in many (if not all) of these cases the people concerned are running organisations with budgets of multiple millions of pounds and thousands of employees. Whether they’re worth the money or not I suppose depends on your perspective. I’d imagine similar jobs in the private sector would pay much more (that’s just a guess mind).

 

[Neath_Jack]

Many in the public sector are earning barely above minimum wage.

Which makes the salaries quoted in the article all the more obscene.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Which makes the salaries quoted in the article all the more obscene.

The answer is to increase the salaries at the bottom not reduce those at the top and end up with lower quality people running vital public services.

 

[Neath_Jack]

In answer to the original question, in many (if not all) of these cases the people concerned are running organisations with budgets of multiple millions of pounds and thousands of employees. Whether they’re worth the money or not I suppose depends on your perspective. I’d imagine similar jobs in the private sector would pay much more (that’s just a guess mind).

Should they not be performance based? Just because they are running those organisations, does that equate to 'deserving' more? Take Betsi Cadwaladr, seems to be in a god awful mess, again, but the chief exec is reportedly on £220-225,000.

Just doesn't seem right to me, especially as you alluded to in your other post about how poorly a lot of the lower ranks are paid.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Should they not be performance based? Just because they are running those organisations, does that equate to 'deserving' more? Take Betsi Cadwaladr, seems to be in a god awful mess, again, but the chief exec is reportedly on £220-225,000.

Just doesn't seem right to me, especially as you alluded to in your other post about how poorly a lot of the lower ranks are paid.

I’d imagine there’s an element of performance based in the salaries quoted.

 

[Jack2jack]

Why cant Swansea council, publish their figures, what has Covid got to do with it, or did I miss something....again.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Why cant Swansea council, publish their figures, what has Covid got to do with it, or did I miss something....again.

Yeah that’s an odd one. Depends when they were asked I suppose. The media goes fishing for this stuff on a regular basis and publishes stories like this to fill space or when they want to start the outrage bus. Most, if not all, senior public sector salaries are already in the public domain. A quick google search reveals that the chief executive of Swansea council earned £154,962 in 21/22. Not sure why the journalist who wrote the article in the OP couldn’t have done that.

 

[Neath_Jack]

Why cant Swansea council, publish their figures, what has Covid got to do with it, or did I miss something....again.

I'd like to see the salary of the bloke who does the 'artists impression' drawings for proposed schemes in the city. He must earn a fortune the amount he churns out, but i hope he is paid per drawing and not per scheme that actually happens, or else he'd be owning them money :lol: