Public Sector Fat Cats
The Sunday Telegraph has published today a list of what the paper calls 'NHS fat cat earners' - some 660 NHS managers no less - who all earn more than the Prime Minister.
For obvious reasons - I am reproducing only the top ten on the blog site.
But it does give you a sense of how salaries in some parts of the public sector - have been allowed to get completely out of control.
Because for every NHS manager earning over £200,000 a year - you will find there are many others in the next tiers of management - whose salaries are also grossly inflated.
The great cost to the public purse lies in the thousands of third and fourth tier managers earning £70,000 - £100,000 a year - although for obvious reasons those earning more than the Prime Minister will always grab the headlines.
The problem is that if the 'head honcho's' salary is far too high - then this pulls up all the people below - except of course the mainstay grades and those on the lowest rungs of the ladder - who remain very low paid.
Another problem is that many of these top managers are paid salaries - that are on a par with the best paid consultants and GPs - when they are actually professional administrators.
Highly talented and qualified no doubt - but they are not doing a medical job - even though they manage those that do - and it is the paradox that is distorting the reward system.
The same thing happens in local government - albeit to a lesser extent - but the same process has caused a huge expansion in highly paid and over paid - third and fourth tier management jobs.
Sunday Telegraph - NHS Top Earners
1. David Bennet £282,500
Was interim chief executive of Monitor, independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts, from March 2010 to February 2011
2. Neil Lloyd £282,500
Chief executive, NHS Professionals
3. Ruth Carnall £277,500
Chief executive, London Strategic Health Authority
4. Sir Ron Kerr £274,500
Chief executive, Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust
5. Sir Robert Naylor £262,500
Chief executive, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
6. Peter Morris £262,000
Chief executive, Barts and The London Trust
7. Clare Chapman £252,500
Director general of workforce, Department of Health
8. Sir Andrew Cash £243,100
Chief executive, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust
9. Dr Mark Goldman £242, 500
Chief executive, Heart of England Foundation Trust until July 2010
10. David Dalton £232 600
Chief executive, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
For obvious reasons - I am reproducing only the top ten on the blog site.
But it does give you a sense of how salaries in some parts of the public sector - have been allowed to get completely out of control.
Because for every NHS manager earning over £200,000 a year - you will find there are many others in the next tiers of management - whose salaries are also grossly inflated.
The great cost to the public purse lies in the thousands of third and fourth tier managers earning £70,000 - £100,000 a year - although for obvious reasons those earning more than the Prime Minister will always grab the headlines.
The problem is that if the 'head honcho's' salary is far too high - then this pulls up all the people below - except of course the mainstay grades and those on the lowest rungs of the ladder - who remain very low paid.
Another problem is that many of these top managers are paid salaries - that are on a par with the best paid consultants and GPs - when they are actually professional administrators.
Highly talented and qualified no doubt - but they are not doing a medical job - even though they manage those that do - and it is the paradox that is distorting the reward system.
The same thing happens in local government - albeit to a lesser extent - but the same process has caused a huge expansion in highly paid and over paid - third and fourth tier management jobs.
Sunday Telegraph - NHS Top Earners
1. David Bennet £282,500
Was interim chief executive of Monitor, independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts, from March 2010 to February 2011
2. Neil Lloyd £282,500
Chief executive, NHS Professionals
3. Ruth Carnall £277,500
Chief executive, London Strategic Health Authority
4. Sir Ron Kerr £274,500
Chief executive, Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust
5. Sir Robert Naylor £262,500
Chief executive, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
6. Peter Morris £262,000
Chief executive, Barts and The London Trust
7. Clare Chapman £252,500
Director general of workforce, Department of Health
8. Sir Andrew Cash £243,100
Chief executive, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust
9. Dr Mark Goldman £242, 500
Chief executive, Heart of England Foundation Trust until July 2010
10. David Dalton £232 600
Chief executive, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
