Senior Salaries
Under the Department for Communities and Local Governments’ Local Transparency Code 2014, local authorities are required to publish details of senior salaries as follows:
- The number of employees whose remuneration was at least £50,000 – ONE
- Details of remuneration and job title of senior employees whose salary is at least £50,000 – TOWN CLERK (salary bands NJC Scale Points 50-54 (£56,658 – £63,878) / DEPUTY TOWN CLERK & BUSINESS ENTERPRISE MANAGER (80% of Town Clerk’s salary (£45,326 – £51,102).
Pay Multiple
The code requires that local authorities must publish the pay multiple on their website, defined as the ratio between the highest paid taxable earnings for the given year (including base salary, variable pay, bonuses, allowances and the cash value of any benefits-in-kind) and the median earnings figure of the whole of the authority’s workforce. The measure must:
- Cover all the elements of remuneration that can be valued
- Use the median earnings figure as the denominator, which should be that of all employees of the local authority on a fixed date each year, coinciding with reporting at the end of the financial year
- Exclude changes in pension benefits, which due to their variety and complexity cannot be accurately included in a pay multiple disclosure
Hailsham Town Council’s pay multiple as at 1 April 2023 is 3:1
