Hundreds of city workers paid more than Ј50,000
HUNDREDS of synod workers in the Capital are being paid more than double the mean proportion wage, new figures have revealed.
The city council employed 343 the bulk of mankind who earned upwards of 50,000 a year in wages in 2009/10 – double the medium gross salary for a Scottish worker.
The number of people paid over 50,000 increased by 7.8 per cent on a year earlier.
The fi
gures bear angered opposition politicians, who say more should be done to cut costs in the current tough financial climate.
But council chiefs insist that they intend to slit management costs as part of a three-year shake-up.
Councillor Andrew Burns, first fiddle of the Labour group on the city council, said: “That emblem of increase in the number of staff earning over 50,000 a year is extremely compact to justify to ordinary taxpayers.
“In our budget last year, we incite forward a balanced budget including a pay freeze for all convention employees earning more than 40,000. Unfortunately, that was rejected ~ dint of. the SNP/Lib Dem administration.
“The vast majority of employees gain a lot less than 50,000 a year and will not front kindly on these statistics.”
The council’s top earner is chief executive Tom Aitchison, who receives 158,553 a year but is to be paid to retire in January.
Gillian Tee, director of the council’s biggest sphere of duty, children and families, is the second-highest earner, on 137,244.
John Stevenson, president of the Edinburgh tributary of the trade union Unison, said: “It is an issue not proper regarding chief officers but also teaching staff. In schools, teaching club have their 2.4 per cent increase, but teaching assistants, janitorial mace and admin staff will be getting real-term cuts.”
A incorporated town council spokeswoman said: “Proposals are being worked on with the intention of implementing savings over the next three years.”