Public record · audited accounts to 2024/25
Angus
£160,175chief executive salary, 2024/25
6officers paid above £100,000
£1.2mexit packages, 81 of them, six years
£1,599Band D council tax, current year
It takes a whole year’s Band D council tax from
122 households
to pay the chief executive’s salary of £160,175. Band D in Angus was £1,317 in 2024/25, before water and sewerage.
The register
Who is paid what
| Officer | Salary | Employer pension | Other benefits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathryn Lindsay printed as “K Lindsay”Chief Executive Plus £5,364 election payments disclosed in a separate column (not included in salary figure). Taxable expenses £0 (Table 5). | £160,175 | £24,180 | £0 |
| Ian Lorimer printed as “I Lorimer”Director of Finance (Section 95 Officer) Plus £260 election payments. Taxable expenses £0 (Table 5). | £115,958 | £18,205 | £0 |
| Kelly McIntosh printed as “K McIntosh”Acting Deputy Chief Executive / Director of Education & Lifelong Learning (Chief Education Officer) Commenced acting up 2 September 2024; FYE salary £140,396 (Table 5 note 2). Plus £210 election payments. Taxable expenses £0. | £115,793 | £18,180 | £0 |
| Kirsty Lee printed as “K Lee”Interim Director of Children, Families & Justice (Chief Social Work Officer) Taxable expenses £0 (Table 5). | £111,522 | £15,696 | £0 |
| Graeme Dailly printed as “G Dailly”Director of Infrastructure & Environment Taxable expenses £0 (Table 5). | £111,522 | £17,509 | £0 |
| Sharon Faulkner printed as “S Faulkner”Director of HR, Digital Enablement, IT & Business Support Taxable expenses £0 (Table 5). | £111,522 | £17,509 | £0 |
Basis A dash means the accounts did not disclose the figure. It does not mean zero. Employer pension is what the council pays into that officer’s pension on top of the salary. Where the accounts printed initials, the full name comes from the council’s own documents, and the methodology explains how.
The trajectory
What has actually happened to the pay
- Chief executive pay
- Band D council tax
Pay for comparative years is as the accounts disclosed it, which for a few councils is total remuneration rather than salary alone. Band D excludes water and sewerage.
Both lines start at 100 in 2019/20, so they can be read against each other: the gap between them is the gap between what the chief executive is paid and what the household bill has done since.
The whole senior team, salaries only
Basis Every officer in the council’s senior-employee table, with no £100,000 floor. Salaries as disclosed, never added up across a year where a figure is missing. Employer pension contributions appear against each officer above and are not in these totals. A star marks a year read from the following year’s accounts as its prior-year column. A few councils leave mid-year leavers out of that column, so a starred total can run slightly low.
The cohort
How many staff here are on the good money
253 employees were paid above £50,000 in 2019/20. By 2024/25 it was 539. Above £100,000 the count went from 2 to 11.
Basis The statutory £5,000-band disclosure covering all employees, counted above a fixed cash threshold as the accounts count it. Counting instead above the CPI equivalent of the 2019/20 threshold gives 253 then against 228 now, and the JSON carries that figure for every year. The backdated 2022/23 teachers’ pay award, paid in April 2023, pushes the 2023/24 figure up.
The goodbyes
Exit packages
Angus disclosed 81 exit packages costing £1.2m over the six years to 2024/25.
Packages of £100,000 and over
| Year | Band | Packages | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | £200,001–£300,000 | 1 | £201,675 |
| 2019/20 | £150,001–£200,000 | 1 | £166,793 |
| 2019/20 | £100,001–£150,000 | 1 | £106,480 |
Basis Exit packages as the remuneration report discloses them, by cost band. For most councils the cost covers pension strain and added years as well as the money paid to the person leaving. The bands name nobody, and neither does this record. A dagger marks a year where some bands showed packages with no cost against them, so the total is a floor rather than the full figure.
The invisible payroll
What the council pays into pensions
Basis Employer contributions taken from the pension notes to the accounts. This is the council’s own money going in, not the staff’s. This is the local government scheme only. The teachers’ scheme is a separate payment to the Scottish Government and is not added in here, because the council never printed a combined total.
LGPS: 'the council paid employer contributions totalling £11.684m' (Note 21, Tayside Pension Fund), stated as 17.0% of pensionable pay; teachers: 'amount paid over in respect of employer's contributions was £10.313 million' to STPS/SPPA (Note 20). Printed in £m, converted to whole £. No combined total printed. Unfunded discretionary benefits of £1.189m paid directly are excluded.
Officers and members
The paid and the elected
11 senior officers£1.1m
28 councillors£689,000
2024/25, salaries as disclosed
Basis The officers’ bar is salary only, before employer pension contributions. The councillors’ bar is the total printed in the remuneration report.
Note 19 'Councillor Remuneration, Allowances and Expenses' (£m): Remuneration 0.682, Allowances 0.000, Expenses 0.007, Total 0.689. Converted ×1,000,000. 28 elected members per the management commentary.
Arm’s length
Pay in the companies this council owns
| Body | Post | Salary | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tayside Contracts Joint Committee | Keith McNamara Managing Director | £136,000 | 2024/25 |
| Tayside Contracts Joint Committee | Douglas McKay Head of Operations | £112,000 | 2024/25 |
| Tayside Contracts Joint Committee | — Employees in band | £125,000 - £129,999 | 2024/25 |
Basis Read from each body’s own filed accounts. Several of them disclose a pay band and no name. Where the accounts, Companies House or the council’s own report put the identification beyond doubt, the name is given and the evidence recorded. Where they do not, the row stays exactly as printed.
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