Jersey’s top civil servant is paid £60k above ours
GUERNSEY’S top civil servant is paid tens of thousands of pounds less than his Jersey counterpart.
The States of Guernsey accounts show that while the island’s chief executive officer received a salary of £150,031 last year, his opposite number was paid between £210,000 and £215,000, according to the States of Jersey’s Annual Report and Accounts.
Tables showing the amounts paid to the island’s public sector works show that Guernsey’s CEO also received £21,000 towards a pension from the public purse in 2017, taking the total amount to £171,185.
There is a smaller gap between the salaries of Guernsey’s States treasurer, who had a gross salary of £137,109 in 2017, and Jersey’s, who received between £165,000 and £170,000. Guernsey’s treasurer also had a contribution of £18,289 towards their pension.
Jersey has no equivalents to three other senior posts in Guernsey, those of chief operating officer, whose salary last year was £124,073, plus £16,725 pension, chief information officer, whose salary, was £122,222 and pension £16,503, and chief strategy and policy officer, whose salary was £113,393, pension £15,443.
The Guernsey accounts also report an increase in the number of public sector staff who were paid a total of between £140,999 and £150,999 last year, which has risen by 10 to 31 – the highest increase across any of the 10 pay bands, which go up in £19,999 increments starting at £80,000.
The totals paid include the pension and social insurance contributions made by the States as employer.
Only one person was paid £250,000 or more.
The largest group was those in the lowest salary bracket, with 130 employees receiving between £80,000 and £99,999.
That was also the sector that saw the greatest drop in numbers, falling from 137 in 2016 to 130 last year.
Overall, £223,000,000 was paid to public sector employees – including States members – in 2017, an increase of just over £2.9m. on 2016.
The biggest individual rise was in the amounts paid to nurses and medical consultants, which went up £2.6m to £51,105,000.
There were falls in the totals paid to police officers – down £218,000 to £8,803,000 – and teachers and learning support assistants – down £198,000, from £42,743,000.
