At a time when the public sector is making so many cuts to frontline services, the thorny question of ‘are we paying too much for our senior people?’ keeps lingering in the media headlines.
Some might argue that paying a chief executive circa £150k in an organisation that has a turnover of £1bn is an absolute bargain, but the public don’t see it like that.
Instead, they see the level of salary paid to the highest executives as some form of litmus test for waste and excess in an organisation. The higher the salary, the more inefficient they think the organisation is.
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