By Phil Pockets
THE supposedly cash-strapped Crumberland Council – which will squeeze another 5% Council Tax increase out of ‘working people’ from April – now has nearly 30 mouse-clickers earning £100,000 or more a year.
A total of 27 big wigs at Crumberland have been identified as lapping up £100,000 a year or more.
This results in an eye-watering bill of £2.7 million.
(It’s reckoned to be about the same on Wokemoreland & Farcical Council.)
A salary of £100,000 provides a take-home pay after tax of around £5,600 a month…ahhhh, we smell Bisto emanating from the Local Government Gravy Train!
£100k a year is also more than THREE times the average annual salary in Cumbria which is put at around £34,500.
(Wages for most people will be a lot lower than this because the average salary here is inflated by high pay at Sellafield and the Barrow shipyard, which employ thousands.)
This state of affairs at Crumberland comes as the Labour-run Council masterminds various “structure and services reviews” which will invariably mean lower-level staff (the actual grafters) likely being shown the door in the search for savings!
The Council has set aside £1 million to pay for staff “exit costs” this year, but expects that in the future it may need to draw on as much as £9 million.
A Freedom of Information request last year showed that the new Council was also spending just over £1 million on 21 full-time equivalent staff.
Their essential roles? Diversity, equality and inclusion.
How strange that the carve-up of local councils in Cumbria, which brought down Allerdale, Barrow, Carlisle, Copeland, Eden and South Lakeland was SOLD to the tax-paying public as a way of local councils SAVING public money.
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