As Scots scrimp and save to pay the highest income tax rates in the United Kingdom, those in the public sector won’t be feeling so despondent. It turns out in 2022-2023 1,414 Scottish public sector employees reeled in over £100,000 in salary, bonuses and perks, according to the Taxpayers’ Alliance. A whopping 291 employees received over £150,000 in one financial year. A record high figure of busy bodies having higher wages than even the Prime Minister…
John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said:
“Scots will be shocked to learn of the number of bureaucrats with six-figure pay packets across Scotland’s ballooning public sector. With significant responsibilities handed to Scottish ministers and officials, taxpayers would be willing to accept a small number of well-paid, high performers delivering frontline services, but instead they are being given a bloated, inefficient state.”
The eye-watering figures will certainly rile-up a fair few. A true Scot knows the value of a penny…
Starmer said to Robert Peston this afternoon:
“I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy businesses bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world.”