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SALFORD CITY COUNCIL JOINTLY WINS FAT CATS OF THE YEAR AWARD

Star date: 5th January 2020

SALFORD CITY COUNCIL AND GMCA SHARE FAT CATS AWARD

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 13th annual Salford Star Mary Burns Awards, which are given out to honour the most deserving individuals and organisations in the city for their stupid statements, dodgy dealings and iffy activities over the past twelve months.

This year, the judges just couldn't separate Salford Council and GMCA for the Fat Cats of the Year Award. So, ladies and gentlemen, cock your legs and lick your nether regions for our feline financial philanders...

Full details here...

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Fat Cats of the Year Award

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Salford City Council and Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)

Yes, yes, yes, we all know that austerity is not really over for us mortals but for those in authority was it ever a thing? Not if you look at the salaries some of our public servants are pulling in...

At Salford City Council latest accounts revealed that Chief Executive, Jim Taylor, trousered a total package of £243,707 during the financial year 2018/19, compared to £198,290 the previous year – a whopping rise of over £45,000.

Taylor's basic pay rose from £168,662 to £204,290, with employer pension contributions rising from £29,628 to £39,417. And between July 2018 and February 2019, he also worked for Trafford Council in a "shared leadership arrangement" for which Trafford paid Salford £121,514, so the Council could argue that overall there was a saving – but there was still a huge pay hike for the Chief Exec.

Meanwhile, the Director of Place trousered over £20,000 more than the previous year, picking up a total package of £160,936 in 2018/19, compared to £141,341 in 2017/18. The rise is partly attributed in the accounts to the officer filling in for the Chief Exec while he worked at Trafford, and Trafford paid Salford £18,359 in reimbursement.

The Chief Finance Officer, who has overseen budget cuts to front line services, also got a hefty pay rise, with a total package up from £75,698 in 2017/18 to £89,127 during 2018/19. And the numbers of non-school staff at the Council earning over £50,000 increased from 75 in 2017/18 to 88 in 2018/19.

Latest accounts for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, or GMCA, also showed huge salaries and packages...

While GM Mayor, Andy Burnham, pocketed £110,000, his GMCA Chief Executive, Eamonn Boylan, trousered £196,000 but the salary rose to £220,000 from November 2018 as the role encompassed Chief Exec duties of Transport for Greater Manchester (for which the GMCA got a contribution of £30,600 from TfGM).

Meanwhile, the GMCA Deputy Chief Exec pulled in £162,000 (including pension contributions), as did the Treasurer (excluding pension contributions). The Executive Director for Waste and Resources (no pun intended) trousered £124,000 after being transferred from the former Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority, which managed to trash bucket loads of cash thanks to a dodgy £3.8billion PFI deal, described by the Secretary of State as "botched".

The GMCA's Monitoring Officer and Solicitor pocketed £130,000 (including pensions), while the Chief Fire Officer will inflame cuts-plagued firefighters with a package of £107,000 (including pensions and expenses). Oh, and the number of staff earning over £50,000 (excluding pension contributions) almost doubled, from 89 in 2017-18, to 160 in 2018-19. Twelve of them earned over £80,000.

Incredible stuff! So, ladies and gentlemen, scream 'Giz a job – I can do that!' for the joint winners of the Salford Star Mary Burns Fat Cats of the Year Award...

Salford City Council and GMCA!!!!

If someone from the Salford Council or GMCA would like to make an acceptance speech, please use the comments box below...

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DARREN IN SALFORD. wrote
at 17:14:14 on 08 January 2020

Salford council fat cats get richer and richer. What about the great football team which is man utd, most of them players on Tuesday night didn't play well, none of em deserve to get paid doing nothing on the pitch. These players earn buckets loads of £££, nothing like these council penpushers.

DJB wrote
at 17:14:06 on 08 January 2020

But at least they make the effort and actually work for a living.

ROSSI wrote
at 10:35:20 on 08 January 2020

Arnold, you unimaginative bore, I wasn't speaking of council workers per se, although they are for the most part a bunch of dull plodders, no, I was speaking of the wonks who are council executives, earning big wages, the kind of wages that a snivelling little Welp like you would only get to salivate over while catching some ZZZZzzzzzz's in The Land of Nod.

Arnold Rimmer wrote
at 04:33:00 on 08 January 2020

Funny that Rossi says council workers are idiots that couldn't get by in the private sector yet he's said himself he's on JSA so what does that say if he can't get a job with the idiots himself? The truth is public sector workers are paid significantly less than private sector equivilent which is why they struggle to recruit. Including pension figures is nonsense, it's never included in private sector pay. The LGPS is extremely well run and makes a profit from its good investments to pay the pensions. It's not a race to the bottom. Private pensions shouldnt be so greedy and should run as well as the public pension scheme if they got their game together. I saw the council's last lot of professional job offerings and their max pay was 10 grand less than average private sector pay. No doubt they couldn't get anyone qualified to apply, hence the adverts reappearing all the time.

paul kelly wrote
at 16:07:20 on 07 January 2020

yowsa yowsa yowsa this is the job of the bureaucrat and careerist to serve whitehall not salford this bunch of unprincipled wretches work for the establishment elites and the plueconomy the budget set by the conservatives and given to local councils as been cut year in year out from thatchers time the billions stolen from salford and many northern areas being used and diverted to affluent areas paticularly the south east and keeping the tory voter happy at our expense and the running down of our local services the poorer areas are subsidising the rich and this puts the labour run councils in the role of the cut deliverers i am not a member of the labour party and i oppose all the cuts to our services but i would suggest that after 35 years of thatcherism and tory misrule which as led to the de industrialisation of our country and the privatisation of our gas water electric railways and nhs and public services policies which have made life harder for the majority of people in this country it is very unfortunate that in the election policies put forward by labour to balance the economy and redistribute wealth from rich to poor did not come to pass but will surely be on the agenda in the coming years. the tories turned on thatcher the tories have been responsible for the wrecking and underfunding of local government for decades and if you think voting for a party of the ruling class led by an etonian tory will make things better for working class people you are seriously deluded .

DARREN IN SALFORD. wrote
at 16:06:51 on 07 January 2020

All these FAT CATS at Salford council on £££ BIG WADS OF DOSH. It's totally wrong. There is people in Salford on low income STARVING, living on the breadline, living on bread and water, going to food banks, rooting in bins for food leftovers, begging on Eccles and Salford precincts, there is family's with no food in the kitchen cupboards, many family's are struggling to make ends meet. People go to loan sharks to get dosh, many people "Rob Peter to pay Paul". Some family's are using there rent money to buy food to survive, so in the end, there is no rent money, so there get kicked out of there houses onto the street by a couple of bad hard men rent collectors. it's a never ending circle. There is people on JSA(dole) struggling to feed themselves and it's not fair, just a shame. Life's not fair, and still these council FAT CAT pen pushers get richer and richer. That's how it is. people.

Rossi dispenses wisdom ... wrote
at 12:52:36 on 06 January 2020

It's called greed, Darren. These people have found their greasy way onto a Cash Cow called working in the Public Sector. They earn ridiculous amounts of money for what they do, and it's usually not what you know, but who you know. Face it, in the private sector they would be mediocre employees at best and would struggle to make half of what they make working for the clowncil. It's the same in universities, where the Chancellor makes, in some cases, three quarters of a million quid a year; or in hospitals, where the managers are being paid more than the Prime Minister. The public sector often rewards failure, and it sadly attracts people who excel in failing,they are the dull and unimaginative brigade of insipid plodders. This is just how it is my debt collecting amigo. Life's not fair. What can you say?

DARREN BORN AND BRED wrote
at 10:26:14 on 06 January 2020

Why does the *chief finance officer* get a pay rise on top of his big salary? The bloke that has done front line cuts to our services in Salford, its beggers belief. There is to many pen pushers and bullshiters in Salford council.

Howard wrote
at 07:16:39 on 06 January 2020

If all these people worked for Trafford and maybe others we do not know about whom was running Salford council—people on a lower income which means why do we need them if the job runs very well without them ! ! This is surely a waste of money

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