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 "council": "Scottish Borders",
 "nation": "scotland",
 "financial_year": "2024/25",
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "KD Robertson",
   "title": "Chief Executive",
   "salary": 152389,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 25906,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Salary includes £2,689 Returning Officer fees for the July 2024 General Election (note 1).",
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "source_url": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/downloads/file/13452/annual-accounts-2024-25",
   "source_title": "Scottish Borders Council Annual Accounts 2024/25 (Audited)",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "David Robertson",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same evidence as senior_pay entry: 2024/25 audited accounts signed 'David Robertson CPFA, Chief Executive' (25 September 2025), and related-party notes cross-referencing the remuneration report.",
    "sources": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/downloads/file/13452/annual-accounts-2024-25"
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "LH Munro",
   "title": "Director - Education & Children's Services",
   "salary": 107293,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 17828,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Salary includes £2,420 for untaken accrued annual leave (note 3).",
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "source_url": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/downloads/file/13452/annual-accounts-2024-25",
   "source_title": "Scottish Borders Council Annual Accounts 2024/25 (Audited)",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Lesley Munro",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same evidence as senior_pay entry: council directory record 'Lesley Munro - Director of Education and Children Services'.",
    "sources": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/directory-record/69149/lesley-munro-director-of-education-and-children-services"
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "J Craig",
   "title": "Director - Resilient Communities",
   "salary": 105773,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 17828,
   "benefits": 54,
   "notes": "Salary includes £900 Depute Returning Officer fees (note 2). Benefits = £54 taxable expenses.",
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "source_url": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/downloads/file/13452/annual-accounts-2024-25",
   "source_title": "Scottish Borders Council Annual Accounts 2024/25 (Audited)",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Jenni Craig",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same evidence as senior_pay entry: council directory record 'Jenni Craig - Director of Resilient Communities'.",
    "sources": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/directory-record/69144/jenni-craig-director-of-resilient-communities"
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "NB McKinlay",
   "title": "Director - Corporate Governance",
   "salary": 105352,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 17604,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Salary includes £1,800 Depute Returning Officer fees (note 5).",
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "source_url": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/downloads/file/13452/annual-accounts-2024-25",
   "source_title": "Scottish Borders Council Annual Accounts 2024/25 (Audited)",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Nuala McKinlay",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same evidence as senior_pay entry: council news article 'Appointment of Directors confirmed' names Nuala McKinlay, Director of Corporate Governance.",
    "sources": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/news/article/4478/appointment_of_directors_confirmed"
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "SL Douglas",
   "title": "Director - Finance",
   "salary": 105025,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 17701,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Salary includes £900 Depute Returning Officer fees (note 4).",
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "source_url": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/downloads/file/13452/annual-accounts-2024-25",
   "source_title": "Scottish Borders Council Annual Accounts 2024/25 (Audited)",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Suzanne Douglas",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same evidence as senior_pay entry: 2024/25 audited accounts signed 'Suzanne Douglas CPFA, Director of Finance' with related-party notes cross-referencing the remuneration report.",
    "sources": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/downloads/file/13452/annual-accounts-2024-25"
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "C Hepburn",
   "title": "Director - People, Performance & Change",
   "salary": 104873,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 17828,
   "benefits": 34,
   "notes": "Benefits = £34 taxable expenses.",
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "source_url": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/downloads/file/13452/annual-accounts-2024-25",
   "source_title": "Scottish Borders Council Annual Accounts 2024/25 (Audited)",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Clair Hepburn",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same evidence as senior_pay entry: council directory record 'Clair Hepburn - Director of People, Performance and Change'.",
    "sources": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/directory-record/69145/clair-hepburn-director-of-people-performance-and-change"
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "JR Curry",
   "title": "Director - Infrastructure & Environment",
   "salary": 104873,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 17669,
   "benefits": 118,
   "notes": "Benefits = £19 taxable expenses + £99 non-cash benefit for car salary sacrifice (note 7).",
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "source_url": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/downloads/file/13452/annual-accounts-2024-25",
   "source_title": "Scottish Borders Council Annual Accounts 2024/25 (Audited)",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "John Curry",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same evidence as senior_pay entry: council committee presentation naming 'John Curry, Director Infrastructure & Environment' and the 2020/21 accounts note naming John Curry.",
    "sources": "https://scottishborders.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s79613/Item%20No.%205%20-%2031124%20Public%20Toilet%20Provision%20Presentation.pdf"
   }
  }
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   "council": "Scottish Borders",
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   "comparative": 1
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "financial_year": "2020/21",
   "n": 10,
   "team_bill": 805563,
   "comparative": 0
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "financial_year": "2021/22",
   "n": 8,
   "team_bill": 747222,
   "comparative": 1
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "financial_year": "2022/23",
   "n": 10,
   "team_bill": 899797,
   "comparative": 0
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "financial_year": "2023/24",
   "n": 11,
   "team_bill": 990591,
   "comparative": 1
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "n": 10,
   "team_bill": 1000431,
   "comparative": 0
  }
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  "2016/17": 1084,
  "2017/18": 1116.52,
  "2018/19": 1150.02,
  "2019/20": 1196.02,
  "2020/21": 1253.91,
  "2021/22": 1253.91,
  "2022/23": 1291.53,
  "2023/24": 1356.11,
  "2024/25": 1356.11,
  "2025/26": 1491.72,
  "2026/27": 1618.52
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   "nominal": 262,
   "real": 262,
   "realEarn": 262,
   "nominal100": 1,
   "real100": 1
  },
  {
   "fy": "2020/21",
   "nominal": 261,
   "real": 252,
   "realEarn": 195,
   "nominal100": 3,
   "real100": 3
  },
  {
   "fy": "2021/22",
   "nominal": 287,
   "real": 244,
   "realEarn": 225,
   "nominal100": 2,
   "real100": 2
  },
  {
   "fy": "2022/23",
   "nominal": 361,
   "real": 227,
   "realEarn": 244,
   "nominal100": 2,
   "real100": 1
  },
  {
   "fy": "2023/24",
   "nominal": 415,
   "real": 203,
   "realEarn": 227,
   "nominal100": 7,
   "real100": 1
  },
  {
   "fy": "2024/25",
   "nominal": 527,
   "real": 218,
   "realEarn": 193,
   "nominal100": 10,
   "real100": 1
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 ],
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  {
   "fy": "2019/20",
   "packages": 6,
   "cost": 111106,
   "costPartial": false
  },
  {
   "fy": "2020/21",
   "packages": 3,
   "cost": 30151,
   "costPartial": false
  },
  {
   "fy": "2021/22",
   "packages": 4,
   "cost": 104303,
   "costPartial": false
  },
  {
   "fy": "2022/23",
   "packages": 2,
   "cost": 191630,
   "costPartial": false
  },
  {
   "fy": "2023/24",
   "packages": 3,
   "cost": 6831,
   "costPartial": false
  },
  {
   "fy": "2024/25",
   "packages": 3,
   "cost": 14677,
   "costPartial": false
  }
 ],
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  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "fy": "2022/23",
   "lower": 150001,
   "upper": 200000,
   "packages": 1,
   "cost": 160295
  }
 ],
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  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "fy": "2019/20",
   "lgps": 11670000,
   "teachers": 10132000,
   "notes": "LGPS figure is \"Employers' contributions payable to the scheme\" (£'000, x1000) from the Movement in Reserves Statement lines in Note 20 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes; unfunded \"Retirement benefits payable to pensioners\" (£1,380k) is disclosed separately and excluded. Teachers' figure printed as £10.132m (x1,000,000) paid to teachers' pensions per Note 21 Teachers' Pension Scheme. No combined total printed."
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "fy": "2020/21",
   "lgps": 13311000,
   "teachers": 11400000,
   "notes": "LGPS figure is \"Employers' contributions payable to the scheme\" (£'000, x1000) from the Movement in Reserves Statement lines in Note 20 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes; unfunded \"Retirement benefits payable to pensioners\" (£1,358k) is disclosed separately and excluded. Teachers' figure printed as £11.4m (one decimal place as printed, x1,000,000) paid to teachers' pensions per Note 21 Teachers' Pension Scheme. No combined total printed."
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "fy": "2021/22",
   "lgps": 13983000,
   "teachers": 11500000,
   "notes": "LGPS figure is \"Employers' contributions payable to the scheme\" (£'000, x1000) from the Movement in Reserves Statement lines in Note 20 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes; unfunded \"Retirement benefits payable to pensioners\" (£1,374k) is disclosed separately and excluded. Teachers' figure printed as £11.5m (one decimal place as printed, x1,000,000) paid to teachers' pensions per Note 21 Teachers' Pension Scheme. No combined total printed."
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "fy": "2022/23",
   "lgps": 15237000,
   "teachers": 12467000,
   "notes": "LGPS figure is \"Employers' contributions payable to the scheme\" (£'000, x1000) from the Movement in Reserves Statement lines in Note 20 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes; unfunded \"Retirement benefits payable to pensioners\" (£1,325k) is disclosed separately and excluded. Teachers' figure printed as £12.467m (x1,000,000) paid to teachers' pensions per Note 21 Teachers' Pension Scheme. No combined total printed."
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "fy": "2023/24",
   "lgps": 17058000,
   "teachers": 13290000,
   "notes": "LGPS figure is \"Employers' contributions payable to the scheme\" (£'000, x1000) from the Movement in Reserves Statement lines in Note 20 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes; unfunded \"Retirement benefits payable to pensioners\" (£1,400k) is disclosed separately and excluded. Teachers' figure printed as £13.290m (x1,000,000) paid to teachers' pensions per Note 21 Teachers' Pension Scheme; excludes early-retirement/added-years costs of £0.748m disclosed separately. No combined total printed."
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "fy": "2024/25",
   "lgps": 16592000,
   "teachers": 15525000,
   "notes": "LGPS figure is \"Employers' contributions payable to the scheme\" (£'000, x1000) from the Movement in Reserves Statement lines in Note 20 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes; unfunded \"Retirement benefits payable to pensioners\" (£1,443k) is disclosed separately and excluded. Teachers' figure printed as £15.525m (x1,000,000) paid to teachers' pensions per Note 21 Teachers' Pension Scheme; excludes early-retirement/added-years costs of £0.784m disclosed separately. No combined total printed."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "fy": "2019/20",
   "total": 743000,
   "salaries": 679000,
   "n": null,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report table 'Total Remuneration paid to Councillors' (£'000, x1000): salaries, expenses and total as printed. Number of councillors not stated in the report."
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "fy": "2020/21",
   "total": 687000,
   "salaries": 676000,
   "n": null,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report table 'Total Remuneration paid to Councillors' (£'000, x1000): salaries, expenses and total as printed (printed total 687 differs by 1 from the sum of the printed components, transcribed as printed). Number of councillors not stated in the report."
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "fy": "2021/22",
   "total": 737000,
   "salaries": 724000,
   "n": null,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report table 'Total Remuneration paid to Councillors' (£'000, x1000): salaries, expenses and total as printed. Number of councillors not stated in the report."
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "fy": "2022/23",
   "total": 808000,
   "salaries": 775000,
   "n": null,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report table 'Total Remuneration paid to Councillors' (£'000, x1000): salaries, expenses and total as printed. Number of councillors not stated in the report."
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "fy": "2023/24",
   "total": 838000,
   "salaries": 799000,
   "n": null,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report table 'Total Remuneration paid to Councillors' (£'000, x1000): salaries, expenses and total as printed. Number of councillors not stated in the report."
  },
  {
   "council": "Scottish Borders",
   "fy": "2024/25",
   "total": 889000,
   "salaries": 854000,
   "n": null,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report table 'Total Remuneration paid to Councillors' (£'000, x1000): salaries, expenses and total as printed. Number of councillors not stated in the report."
  }
 ],
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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/."
}