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09
Apr 2024
12 local council staff named in Town Hall Rich List
A dozen council staff whose jobs covered the Harrogate district are named in today's annual Town Hall Rich List.
The list, compiled each year by the TaxPayers' Alliance, reveals which council staff were paid more than £100,000 in 2022/23.
The period covers the final year of Harrogate Borough Council and North Yorkshire County Council, which were abolished on April 1 last year to make way for the new North Yorkshire Council. Almost all staff transferred to the new local authority.
Four staff from the borough council are included on the list, including chief executive Wallace Sampson, who was one of the few not to transfer to North Yorkshire Council.
Mr Sampson received a total remuneration package of £237,534, which included a salary of £136,226 and £101,275 compensation for loss of office.
Paula Lorimer, director of Harrogate Convention Centre, is listed as the second highest paid member of staff at the borough council, on total remuneration of £121,818.
The borough council's director of corporate affairs and director of economy and culture are the other two members of staff listed as earning in excess of £100,000.
£223,934 package
Chief executive Richard Flinton was North Yorkshire County Council's highest earning member of staff, commanding a salary of £194,176 in a total package worth £223,984.
Mr Flinton, who was appointed chief executive of North Yorkshire Council, saw his salary increased to £205,897 this year.
Eleven other county council staff were paid in excess of £100,000, according to the list.
The list reveals 188 council employees nationally had a higher salary than Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who had a salary entitlement of £164,951 in 2022-23.
The highest remunerated was the now former director of culture, community and business services at Hampshire council, Felicity Roe, who received £651,158 in total remuneration
John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said:
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