Perth and Kinross
It takes a whole year’s Band D council tax from
116 households
to pay the chief executive’s salary of £163,305. Band D in Perth and Kinross was £1,404 in 2024/25, before water and sewerage.
The register
Who is paid what
| Officer | Salary | Employer pension | Other benefits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Glen Chief Executive Table 3 discloses only salary, fees & allowances (plus termination payments where applicable); no taxable expenses/benefits column. | £163,305 | £25,639 | — |
| Clare Mailer Depute Chief Executive Table 3 discloses only salary, fees & allowances (plus termination payments where applicable); no taxable expenses/benefits column. | £141,133 | £22,043 | — |
| Jacqueline Pepper Director/Chief Officer of the Health and Social Care Partnership Table 3 discloses only salary, fees & allowances (plus termination payments where applicable); no taxable expenses/benefits column. | £140,396 | £22,042 | — |
| Scott Walker Strategic Lead - Finance and Business Support Table 3 discloses only salary, fees & allowances (plus termination payments where applicable); no taxable expenses/benefits column. | £110,477 | £17,159 | — |
| Lisa Simpson Strategic Lead - Legal and Governance Table 3 discloses only salary, fees & allowances (plus termination payments where applicable); no taxable expenses/benefits column. | £110,132 | £17,161 | — |
| Arun Singh Strategic Lead - Children, Families and Justice Table 3 discloses only salary, fees & allowances (plus termination payments where applicable); no taxable expenses/benefits column. | £109,285 | £17,158 | — |
| Alan Taylor Strategic Lead - Customer and Digital Services Table 3 discloses only salary, fees & allowances (plus termination payments where applicable); no taxable expenses/benefits column. | £103,071 | £16,113 | — |
| Stephen Crawford Strategic Lead - Property Services Table 3 discloses only salary, fees & allowances (plus termination payments where applicable); no taxable expenses/benefits column. | £102,968 | £16,113 | — |
| Greg Boland Strategic Lead - Strategic Planning, People and Performance Table 3 discloses only salary, fees & allowances (plus termination payments where applicable); no taxable expenses/benefits column. | £102,630 | £16,113 | — |
| Fraser Crofts Strategic Lead - Environment and Infrastructure Table 3 discloses only salary, fees & allowances (plus termination payments where applicable); no taxable expenses/benefits column. | £102,630 | £16,113 | — |
| Elaine Ritchie Strategic Lead - Housing and Communities Table 3 discloses only salary, fees & allowances (plus termination payments where applicable); no taxable expenses/benefits column. | £102,630 | £16,113 | — |
| Donna Mitchell Chief Finance Officer & Head of Governance/Performance, Health and Social Care Table 3 discloses only salary, fees & allowances (plus termination payments where applicable); no taxable expenses/benefits column. | £102,630 | £16,061 | — |
| David Littlejohn Strategic Lead - Economy, Development and Planning (to 28/02/2025) Part year to 28/02/2025. Table 3 discloses only salary, fees & allowances (plus termination payments where applicable); no taxable expenses/benefits column. | £100,178 | £15,728 | — |
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
333 employees were paid above £50,000 in 2019/20. By 2024/25 it was 740. Above £100,000 the count went from 5 to 17.
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 333 then against 274 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
Perth and Kinross disclosed 189 exit packages costing £2.6m over the six years to 2024/25.
Packages of £100,000 and over
| Year | Band | Packages | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019/20 | £100,001–over | 1 | £113,000 |
| 2023/24 | £100,001–over | 3 | £905,000 |
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 'Employers' contributions and direct payments payable to Tayside Pension Fund' (£'000, x1000) from Note 18 Post-Employment Benefits (MiRS line, matching 'Contributions by Employer Including Unfunded' in the asset reconciliation); printed figure includes unfunded direct payments to pensioners, inseparable as printed. Teachers' figure printed exactly as £12,590,572 paid to the Teachers' Pensions scheme per Note 18 (defined contribution section); excludes added years' benefits payments of £208,184 disclosed separately. No combined total printed.
Officers and members
The paid and the elected
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.
Remuneration Report Table 2 'Remuneration Paid to Councillors 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025', figures in whole £; expenses row printed as 'Allowances & Expenses'. Number of councillors not stated in the report.
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