Cardiff council has the most highly-paid officials in Wales with 14 members of staff receiving six-figure pay and pensions packages last year, a report by the Taxpayers' Alliance suggests. The campaign group published the data in their Welsh town hall rich list.
The biggest remuneration package of all was given to Denbighshire’s departing chief executive Judith Greenhalgh. She benefited from a pay package worth £280,189 last year when her salary, pension and an extra £102,000 exit payment were taken into account. Yet she was just one of 145 members of staff who benefited from packages worth more than £100,000 in 2020-21.
Ms Greenhalgh was CEO of Denbighshire council since April 2018, but took a career break after being on "special leave" for around two months. Earlier this year we put together a full breakdown of all the highest paid public sector officials in Wales here.
