Organisations are top heavy with high earners

COUNTING the cost of local government usually takes the form of berating the excessive numbers of councillors and the expenses they incur.

However, the less-looked-at reality is that city and county councils are top heavy with senior public servants who are earning huge amounts with increments built in every year until they get to the top of their hefty pay packets.

In Dec 2009, “emergency financial measures in the public interest” were implemented to cut the pay of all civil servants — including local authority workers — around the country.