Public record · audited accounts to 2023/24
East Dunbartonshire
This council had not finished its 2024/25 audit when we last checked, so its record stops at 2023/24, the most recent year anyone has signed off.
£122,890chief executive salary, 2023/24
6officers paid above £100,000
£2.4mexit packages, 32 of them, six years
£1,752Band D council tax, current year
It takes a whole year’s Band D council tax from
87 households
to pay the chief executive’s salary of £122,890. Band D in East Dunbartonshire was £1,416 in 2023/24, before water and sewerage.
The register
Who is paid what
| Officer | Salary | Employer pension | Other benefits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Davie printed as “A Davie”Depute Chief Executive - Education, People & Business (to 15.12.23), Chief Executive (from 18.12.23) 2023/24 is the most recent audited year. No taxable expenses, bonuses or non-cash benefits paid. | £131,295 | £25,340 | £0 |
| Gerry Cornes printed as “G Cornes”Chief Executive Until retirement 21 January 2024. 2023/24 is the most recent audited year (2024/25 audit not complete at extraction, August 2026). Accounts state no taxable expenses, bonuses or non-cash benefits paid to any senior employee. | £122,890 | £23,718 | £0 |
| Caroline Sinclair printed as “C Sinclair”Chief Social Work Officer 2023/24 is the most recent audited year. No taxable expenses, bonuses or non-cash benefits paid. | £117,532 | £22,685 | £0 |
| Jamie Robertson printed as “J Robertson”Chief Finance Officer 2023/24 is the most recent audited year. No taxable expenses, bonuses or non-cash benefits paid. | £115,979 | £22,384 | £0 |
| Karen Donnelly printed as “K Donnelly”Chief Monitoring Officer 2023/24 is the most recent audited year. No taxable expenses, bonuses or non-cash benefits paid. | £115,979 | £22,384 | £0 |
| Greg Bremner printed as “G Bremner”Interim Chief Education Officer (to 21.11.23), Chief Education Officer (from 22.11.23) 2023/24 is the most recent audited year. No taxable expenses, bonuses or non-cash benefits paid. | £115,297 | £26,487 | £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
119 employees were paid above £50,000 in 2019/20. By 2023/24 it was 954. Above £100,000 the count went from 0 to 10.
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 119 then against 302 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
East Dunbartonshire disclosed 32 exit packages costing £2.4m over the six years to 2023/24.
Packages of £100,000 and over
| Year | Band | Packages | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023/24 | £400,001–£450,000 | 1 | £435,442 |
| 2023/24 | £350,001–£400,000 | 1 | £397,444 |
| 2023/24 | £250,001–£300,000 | 1 | £280,770 |
| 2023/24 | £200,001–£250,000 | 3 | £646,149 |
| 2023/24 | £100,001–£150,000 | 1 | £137,977 |
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 figure is 'Contributions by the Employer' (£'000, x1000) in the Reconciliation of the Movements in the Fair Value of Scheme (Plan) Assets, Note 28 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes; excludes 'Contributions re Unfunded Benefits' (£3.473m) shown separately. Teachers' figure is the amount the Council was due to pay in respect of teachers' retirement benefits per Note 27 Pension Schemes Accounted for as Defined Contribution Schemes (£11.687m; cash paid over to Scottish Government in year £10.612m). No combined total printed.
Officers and members
The paid and the elected
11 senior officers£1.0m
22 councillors£523,214
2023/24, 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.
Remuneration Report, 'Total Councillors' Remuneration' table (whole £): 'Salaries – Council Duties', Expenses, Total as printed. Council at 31 March 2024 constituted by 22 members per the Management Commentary. 2023/24 is the latest audited year.
Arm’s length
Pay in the companies this council owns
| Body | Post | Salary | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Dunbartonshire Leisure and Culture Trust | Karin Jackson Employees in band | £100,000 - £109,999 | 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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