The highest paid senior officer in Sefton Council receives over £160k a year with other senior roles attracting salaries of up £130k.
The details of senior officers’ pay were revealed in a report discussed at a meeting of Sefton Council's pay and grading committee yesterday. The chief executive of Sefton Council, Dwayne Johnson, receives the highest amount, with his pay set at nearly £163k per year.
Five executive directors are paid just over half a million in total – with the highest paid being the executive director of children’s social care and education, who earns £130k a year, alongside the executive director of adult social care and health, and place, who also receives a salary of £130k.
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Three directors are paid just under £124k a year each – executive director corporate resources and customer services, executive director place, and executive director people.
Assistant directors and the chief legal officer are both paid just under £91k a year each. Other senior officers get paid in the region of £80k a year with pay grades from over £58k each, the rate at which positions are defined as ‘senior office’ roles.
The report also details pay rates for other roles across the council, and provides information about some of the pay scale increases which either have already or are due to come into effect during the next financial year.
The pay rates for education professions are set nationally according to a collective agreement known as the Soubery agreement, although rates for some education staff are set locally. This includes educational improvement professionals, whose rates vary between £37k and £98k a year.
Educational psychologists have a starting salary of £38k per year, while senior educational psychologists can receive rates from £49k upwards. Trainee salaries are set at a starting rate of £24k per year, with assistants on salaries of £30k and above.
Youth and community workers are on salaries ranging from £19k a year with professionals on rates from just under £26k. A pay increase is currently going through a process of negotiation with an offer of an increase of just under £2k on the table.
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