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…