Some NSW council CEOs are earning more than the Premier
Data from The NSW government Shows The state's top paid council CEOs are earning more than the Premier. Chris Minns Has an annual pay packet of $416,000. But some council bosses are paid more than half a million dollars a year.
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00:00The latest figures released by the Office of Local Government, New South Wales, cover
00:06the 2022-23 financial year.
00:09The sums include salary, superannuation, non-cash benefits and fringe benefits tax.
00:14Top of the list was Walgate Shire Council in the States North, with the General Manager's
00:19remuneration exceeding $745,000.
00:23The figure is somewhat inflated because it includes a termination payment to the outgoing
00:27General Manager.
00:28Council's changing leadership had higher-than-normal wages bills as departing CEOs cashed out
00:33their leave.
00:34Penrith, Parramatta, Northern Beaches and Liverpool Plains councils all employed three
00:39CEOs over the financial year.
00:42There was a better indication of how much CEOs earned at the rest of the top ten councils
00:47as they only had one person in the role.
00:49The General Managers of Canterbury Bankstown, City of Sydney, Blacktown, Central Coast and
00:54Maitland all were on pay packets of more than half a million dollars.
00:58Why are they paid so much?
00:59Local government New South Wales says council CEOs oversee large and complex organisations
01:05managing millions of dollars' worth of infrastructure, services and staff.
01:10The organisation added that councils can be large enterprises with over 2,000 employees.