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 "nation": "scotland",
 "financial_year": "2023/24",
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "C Beattie",
   "title": "Chief Executive",
   "salary": 138071,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 31756,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "2023/24 is the most recent audited year (2024/25 audit still in progress at extraction, August 2026). Expenses nil.",
   "council": "Stirling",
   "source_url": "https://www.stirling.gov.uk/media/zpfokkmm/stirling-council-abstract-of-accounts-2023-24.pdf",
   "source_title": "Stirling Council Abstract of Accounts 2023-24 (Audited)",
   "financial_year": "2023/24",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Carol Beattie",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same person as the senior_pay entry: signed 'Carol Beattie, Chief Executive' in the audited accounts 2020-21 and listed as Chief Executive on the council's Senior Management Team page (Dec 2023).",
    "sources": "https://www.stirling.gov.uk/media/0fpnrkxz/stirling-council-audited-accounts-2020-21.pdf; https://web.archive.org/web/20240423071025/https://www.stirling.gov.uk/council-and-committees/about-the-council/senior-management-team/"
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "B Roberts",
   "title": "Chief Operating Officer - Infrastructure & Environment",
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   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 23713,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "2023/24 is the most recent audited year. Expenses nil.",
   "council": "Stirling",
   "source_url": "https://www.stirling.gov.uk/media/zpfokkmm/stirling-council-abstract-of-accounts-2023-24.pdf",
   "source_title": "Stirling Council Abstract of Accounts 2023-24 (Audited)",
   "financial_year": "2023/24",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Brian Roberts",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same person as the senior_pay entry: Stirling Council minutes of 4 June 2020 list 'Brian Roberts, Chief Operating Officer - Infrastructure & Environment'; the Senior Management Team page (Dec 2023) lists 'Infrastructure and Environment - Brian Roberts'.",
    "sources": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230326001938/https://www.stirling.gov.uk/council-and-committees/minutes-archive/2020-21/stirling-council-thursday-4-june-2020/; https://web.archive.org/web/20240423071025/https://www.stirling.gov.uk/council-and-committees/about-the-council/senior-management-team/"
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "I McKnight",
   "title": "Chief Operating Officer - Communities and Performance",
   "salary": 103100,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 23713,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "2023/24 is the most recent audited year. Expenses nil.",
   "council": "Stirling",
   "source_url": "https://www.stirling.gov.uk/media/zpfokkmm/stirling-council-abstract-of-accounts-2023-24.pdf",
   "source_title": "Stirling Council Abstract of Accounts 2023-24 (Audited)",
   "financial_year": "2023/24",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Isabel McKnight",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same person as the senior_pay entry: Stirling Council minutes of 4 June 2020 list 'Isabel McKnight, Chief Operating Officer - Communities & Performance'; the Senior Management Team page (Dec 2023) lists 'Communities and Performance - Isabel McKnight'.",
    "sources": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230326001938/https://www.stirling.gov.uk/council-and-committees/minutes-archive/2020-21/stirling-council-thursday-4-june-2020/; https://web.archive.org/web/20240423071025/https://www.stirling.gov.uk/council-and-committees/about-the-council/senior-management-team/"
   }
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   "n": 14,
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  {
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   "team_bill": 810996,
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  {
   "council": "Stirling",
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   "n": 14,
   "team_bill": 1076102,
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   "n": 14,
   "team_bill": 1264754,
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  "2016/17": 1197,
  "2017/18": 1197,
  "2018/19": 1232.91,
  "2019/20": 1282.23,
  "2020/21": 1344.28,
  "2021/22": 1344.28,
  "2022/23": 1384.58,
  "2023/24": 1481.5,
  "2024/25": 1481.5,
  "2025/26": 1611.78,
  "2026/27": 1752.87
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   "real100": 1
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   "real": 235,
   "realEarn": 178,
   "nominal100": 1,
   "real100": 1
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  {
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   "real100": 2
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   "real": 215,
   "realEarn": 234,
   "nominal100": 2,
   "real100": 2
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  {
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   "cost": 358000,
   "costPartial": false
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  {
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   "packages": 24,
   "cost": 274000,
   "costPartial": false
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  {
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   "packages": 30,
   "cost": 280000,
   "costPartial": false
  },
  {
   "fy": "2022/23",
   "packages": 42,
   "cost": 339000,
   "costPartial": false
  },
  {
   "fy": "2023/24",
   "packages": 97,
   "cost": 3952000,
   "costPartial": false
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  {
   "council": "Stirling",
   "fy": "2023/24",
   "lower": 150001,
   "upper": 500000,
   "packages": 5,
   "cost": 1299000
  },
  {
   "council": "Stirling",
   "fy": "2023/24",
   "lower": 100001,
   "upper": 150000,
   "packages": 8,
   "cost": 1032000
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 ],
 "employer_pension_by_year": [
  {
   "council": "Stirling",
   "fy": "2019/20",
   "lgps": 17843000,
   "teachers": 8530000,
   "notes": "LGPS figure is 'Employer's Contributions Payable to Falkirk Pension Fund' (£'000, x1000) from the Note 23 Pension Costs MiRS table, 2019/20 comparative column; teachers' figure is £8.53m paid to the Teachers' Pension Scheme per the same note's Teachers paragraph (2019/20 comparative). Additional early-retirement benefits outside the Teachers' Scheme (£0.844m) excluded. No combined total printed."
  },
  {
   "council": "Stirling",
   "fy": "2020/21",
   "lgps": 19145000,
   "teachers": 10020000,
   "notes": "LGPS figure is 'Employer's Contributions Payable to Falkirk Pension Fund' (£'000, x1000) from the Note 23 Pension Costs MiRS table; teachers' figure is £10.02m paid to the Teachers' Pension Scheme per the same note's Teachers paragraph (employer contribution rate 23%). Additional early-retirement benefits outside the Teachers' Scheme (£0.828m) excluded. No combined total printed."
  },
  {
   "council": "Stirling",
   "fy": "2021/22",
   "lgps": 20341000,
   "teachers": 10420000,
   "notes": "LGPS figure is 'Employer's Contributions Payable to Falkirk Pension Fund' (£'000, x1000) from the Note 26 Pension Costs MiRS table, 2021/22 comparative column; teachers' figure is £10.42m paid to the Teachers' Pension Scheme per the same note's Teachers paragraph (2021/22 comparative). Additional early-retirement benefits outside the Teachers' Scheme (£0.798m) excluded. No combined total printed."
  },
  {
   "council": "Stirling",
   "fy": "2022/23",
   "lgps": 22561000,
   "teachers": 11300000,
   "notes": "LGPS figure is 'Employer's Contributions Payable to Falkirk Pension Fund' (£'000, x1000) from the Note 26 Pension Costs MiRS table; teachers' figure is £11.30m paid to the Teachers' Pension Scheme per the same note's Teachers paragraph (employer contribution rate 23%). Additional early-retirement benefits outside the Teachers' Scheme (£0.789m) excluded. No combined total printed."
  },
  {
   "council": "Stirling",
   "fy": "2023/24",
   "lgps": 25482000,
   "teachers": 11920000,
   "notes": "LGPS figure is 'Employer's Contributions Payable to Falkirk Pension Fund' (£'000, x1000) from the Note 26 Pension Costs MiRS table; teachers' figure is £11.92m paid to the Teachers' Pension Scheme per the same note's Teachers paragraph (employer contribution rate 23%). Additional early-retirement benefits outside the Teachers' Scheme (£0.816m) excluded. No combined total printed. 2023/24 is the latest audited year."
  }
 ],
 "councillor_remuneration_by_year": [
  {
   "council": "Stirling",
   "fy": "2019/20",
   "total": 462177,
   "salaries": 452258,
   "n": null,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, 'Total Councillors' Remuneration' narrative: 2019/20 comparative figure £462,177 total (£452,258 salaries, £9,919 expenses). Whole £ as printed. Total number of councillors not stated in this document."
  },
  {
   "council": "Stirling",
   "fy": "2020/21",
   "total": 458806,
   "salaries": 458605,
   "n": null,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, 'Total Councillors' Remuneration' narrative: total remuneration of all elected members £458,806, of which £458,605 salaries and £201 expenses. Whole £ as printed. Total number of councillors not stated in this document."
  },
  {
   "council": "Stirling",
   "fy": "2021/22",
   "total": 471983,
   "salaries": 470548,
   "n": null,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, 'Total Councillors' Remuneration' narrative: 2021/22 comparative figure £471,983 total (£470,548 salaries, £1,435 expenses). Whole £ as printed. Headcount for 2021/22 not stated."
  },
  {
   "council": "Stirling",
   "fy": "2022/23",
   "total": 490683,
   "salaries": 479372,
   "n": 23,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, 'Total Councillors' Remuneration' narrative: total remuneration of all elected members £490,683, of which £479,372 salaries and £11,311 expenses. Whole £ as printed. 23 councillors elected at the 5 May 2022 election per the management commentary."
  },
  {
   "council": "Stirling",
   "fy": "2023/24",
   "total": 525557,
   "salaries": 512750,
   "n": 23,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, 'Total Councillors' Remuneration' narrative: total remuneration of all elected members £525,557, of which £512,750 salaries and £12,807 expenses. Whole £ as printed. 23 councillors elected at the 5 May 2022 election per the management commentary (two by-elections since). 2023/24 is the latest audited year."
  }
 ],
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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/."
}