Liverpool City Council is advertising seven new top director positions with annual salaries totalling nearly £900,000.
The council is still recovering from a devastating government inspection report in 2021 that saw a team of Whitehall commissioners appointed to oversee key departments. That government intervention was expanded further last year to include financial and governance powers.
The council has struggled to fill permanent senior officer positions in recent years. In November the ECHO revealed the cash-strapped local authority was forking out nearly £100,000 extra per year on interim positions in the senior leadership team than it would have been with permanent roles.
