Glasgow City Slickers
A thought occurred since re-reading the Sunday Herald report about the shenanigans at one of Glasgow City Council's new arm's length companies - City Building.
How come the Managing Director (Willie Docherty) gets paid £150,000 a year - when the Chief Executive of Glasgow City Council draws a salary of £158,000 a year?
What explains the £8,000 difference - is City Building underpaying or overpaying its boss - and how was this rather generous salary determined?
Because the council chief executive clearly has a bigger job - with a wide range of services and much greater responsibility - than the head honcho at City Building, which has only 2,200 employees.
Yet Willie Docherty (MD) is paid nearly as much as the top man at Scotland's largest council - which has more than ten times the number of staff at City Building.
Something wrong somewhere - surely!
The Sunday Herald also carried an advert yesterday for a new chief executive at North Ayrshire Council - with a salary of £126,597 a year.
Maybe it's not just the country's bankers that need much closer public scrutiny.
How come the Managing Director (Willie Docherty) gets paid £150,000 a year - when the Chief Executive of Glasgow City Council draws a salary of £158,000 a year?
What explains the £8,000 difference - is City Building underpaying or overpaying its boss - and how was this rather generous salary determined?
Because the council chief executive clearly has a bigger job - with a wide range of services and much greater responsibility - than the head honcho at City Building, which has only 2,200 employees.
Yet Willie Docherty (MD) is paid nearly as much as the top man at Scotland's largest council - which has more than ten times the number of staff at City Building.
Something wrong somewhere - surely!
The Sunday Herald also carried an advert yesterday for a new chief executive at North Ayrshire Council - with a salary of £126,597 a year.
Maybe it's not just the country's bankers that need much closer public scrutiny.
