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   "source_url": "https://www.dumfriesandgalloway.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2025-12/2024-25-annual-accounts-web-version.pdf",
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   "source_url": "https://www.dumfriesandgalloway.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2025-12/2024-25-annual-accounts-web-version.pdf",
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   "upper": 250000,
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  {
   "council": "Dumfries and Galloway",
   "fy": "2019/20",
   "lgps": 21317000,
   "teachers": 13110000,
   "notes": "LGPS: 'employers' contributions payable to scheme' £21,317k (£000s, ×1000), Note 27 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes, Movement in Reserves section. Teachers: £13.11 Million employer contributions funded from the Council and paid to the Scottish Public Pensions Agency, Note 28. No combined total printed. Excludes teachers' added years discretionary payments (£2.16m) and the higher Pensions Reserve figure (£25,981k), which includes unfunded benefits."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dumfries and Galloway",
   "fy": "2020/21",
   "lgps": 20701000,
   "teachers": 15020000,
   "notes": "LGPS: 'employers' contributions payable to scheme' £20,701k (£000s, ×1000), Note 27 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes, Movement in Reserves section. Teachers: £15.02 Million employer contributions funded from the Council and paid to the Scottish Public Pensions Agency, Note 28. No combined total printed. Excludes teachers' added years discretionary payments (£2.22m) and the higher Pensions Reserve figure (£25,491k), which includes unfunded benefits."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dumfries and Galloway",
   "fy": "2021/22",
   "lgps": 22870000,
   "teachers": 14770000,
   "notes": "LGPS: 'employers' contributions payable to scheme' £22,870k (£000s, ×1000), Note 27 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes, Movement in Reserves section. Teachers: £14.77 Million employer contributions funded from the Council and paid to the Scottish Public Pensions Agency, Note 28. No combined total printed. Excludes teachers' added years discretionary payments (£2.24m) and the higher Pensions Reserve figure (£27,574k), which includes unfunded benefits."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dumfries and Galloway",
   "fy": "2022/23",
   "lgps": 24974000,
   "teachers": 16300000,
   "notes": "LGPS: 'employers' contributions payable to scheme' £24,974k (£000s, ×1000), Note 27 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes, Movement in Reserves section. Teachers: £16.3 Million employer contributions funded from the Council and paid to the Scottish Public Pensions Agency, Note 28. No combined total printed. Excludes teachers' added years discretionary payments (£2.26m) and the higher Pensions Reserve figure (£29,738k), which includes unfunded benefits."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dumfries and Galloway",
   "fy": "2023/24",
   "lgps": 27080000,
   "teachers": 16870000,
   "notes": "LGPS: 'employers' contributions payable to scheme' £27,080k (£000s, ×1000), Note 27 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes, Movement in Reserves section. Excludes the separately printed 'employers' contributions in relation to unfunded benefits paid' (£5,505k). Teachers: £16.87 Million employer contributions funded from the Council and paid to the Scottish Public Pensions Agency, Note 28. No combined total printed."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dumfries and Galloway",
   "fy": "2024/25",
   "lgps": 27328000,
   "teachers": 19770000,
   "notes": "LGPS: 'employers' contributions payable to scheme' £27,328k (£000s, ×1000), Note 27 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes, Movement in Reserves section. Excludes the separately printed 'employers' contributions in relation to unfunded benefits paid' (£5,501k). Teachers: £19.77 Million employer contributions funded from the Council and paid to the Scottish Public Pensions Agency, Note 28. No combined total printed."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "council": "Dumfries and Galloway",
   "fy": "2019/20",
   "total": 909000,
   "salaries": 744000,
   "n": null,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, 'Members' Remuneration' table (£000s, ×1000): Salaries £744k, Allowances £89k (printed separately, included in the printed total but not in the salaries field here), Expenses £76k, Totals £909k. Number of councillors not stated."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dumfries and Galloway",
   "fy": "2020/21",
   "total": 867000,
   "salaries": 768000,
   "n": null,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, 'Members' Remuneration' table (£000s, ×1000): Salaries £768k, Allowances £91k (printed separately, included in the printed total but not in the salaries field here), Expenses £8k, Totals £867k. Number of councillors not stated."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dumfries and Galloway",
   "fy": "2021/22",
   "total": 907000,
   "salaries": 891000,
   "n": null,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, 'Total Remuneration paid to Elected Members' table, 2021/22 column marked (restated) (£000s, ×1000): Salaries £891k, Allowances £6k (printed separately, included in the printed total but not in the salaries field here), Expenses £10k, Totals £907k. Restatement moved Senior Member enhancements from Allowances into Salaries (presentational only, per Note 2 to the accounts). Number of councillors not stated."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dumfries and Galloway",
   "fy": "2022/23",
   "total": 973000,
   "salaries": 928000,
   "n": null,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, 'Total Remuneration paid to Elected Members' table (£000s, ×1000): Salaries £928k, Allowances £6k (printed separately, included in the printed total but not in the salaries field here), Expenses £39k, Totals £973k. Number of councillors not stated."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dumfries and Galloway",
   "fy": "2023/24",
   "total": 1019000,
   "salaries": 965000,
   "n": 43,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, 'Total Remuneration paid to Elected Members' table (£000s, ×1000): Salaries £965k, Allowances £2k (printed separately, included in the printed total but not in the salaries field here), Expenses £52k, Totals £1,019k. 43 Elected Members stated in the council profile of the same document."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dumfries and Galloway",
   "fy": "2024/25",
   "total": 1076000,
   "salaries": 1030000,
   "n": 43,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, 'Total Remuneration paid to Elected Members' table (£000s, ×1000): Salaries £1,030k, Allowances £0k (printed separately), Expenses £46k, Totals £1,076k. 43 Elected Members stated in the council profile of the same document."
  }
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 "notes": "Null means not disclosed, never zero. In pay_bands_by_year, 'nominal' counts staff above a fixed cash threshold and 'real' counts staff above the CPI-equivalent of that threshold in the first recorded year. Officer 'ident' is the full name behind disclosed initials, with its basis. See /methodology/."
}