I think that every time a councillor says they need to get a taxi because they were working late
they should be punched in the face and made to run a car out of their wages like everyone else in the country.
( Bazongaloid, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 12:57, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Yup
I also can't work out how any of them can justify wages higher than the PM. I'm not saying income higher than the PM, but wages for that specific job. It's the only industry on the planet where a branch-manager owns a wage higher than the CEO.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:00, Reply)

To a certain extent I can.
Because the leader of each council is often in charge of managing budgets bigger than a lot of companies, so they are effectively individual CEOs with the PM being the overall project manager for a huge conglomerate.

If anything, you could argue that the PM doesn't get paid enough for the responsibility that they have to accept.

But it's not just the "wage" that cameron takes home. Once you are the PM, you are set for life, you will always end up being given directorships and "speaking tours" for the rest of your days, so the amount you actually earn while in office is pretty much by the by.
( Bazongaloid, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:06, Reply)

As you can see from Blairs wage above.
Public service has to strike a balance between attracting the people who will be most effective, while providing the best value for the tax payer.
It's not there yet by any means, but that's the plan.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:17, Reply)

I don't think any job's list of benfits is potential future work.
I've done cheap jobs on the promise of more work, and that's bullshit, a contract is a contract, and if the future job isn't written into the contract, then it's irrelivent. This is a scaled up version of that.

I agree that these people are managing services and budgets that rivel major institutions, but they are still getting higher wages than the figurehead. Maybe rise the PM's wage to £175k and make £150k the cap? Pulling figures out my arse here.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:42, Reply)