Businesses Are Cutting Back - but Are the Town Hall High Earners? ; Public Sector Pay: Concerns Over Rising Pay in Public Sector
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AN army of public sector servants is costing the North East taxpayer more than pounds 42m a year in wages, The Journal can reveal.
Across the region 494 members of staff currently earn more than an MP's annual salary. That means hundreds of public sector workers are pocketing more than pounds 63,291 on an annual basis.See the full content of this document
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Businesses Are Cutting Back - but Are the Town Hall High Earners? ; Public Sector Pay: Concerns Over Rising Pay in Public Sector
The figures were accessed by The Journal after we submitted a Freedom of In- formatiorequest to every local authority, police force and government quango.
And the staggering cost of employing public sector workers has stirred controversy over the value for money that the taxpayers receive from those organisations.Last night James Ramsbotham, chief executive of the North East Chamber of Commerce, said local authorities should be making cutbacks in their budge...See the full content of this document
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