Data from The NSW government Shows The state's top paid council CEOs are earning more than the Premier. Chris Minns Has an annual pay packet of $416,000. But some council bosses are paid more than half a million dollars a year.
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00:00The latest figures released by the Office of Local Government, New South Wales, cover
00:06the 2022-23 financial year.
00:09The sums include salary, superannuation, non-cash benefits and fringe benefits tax.
00:14Top of the list was Walgate Shire Council in the States North, with the General Manager's
00:19remuneration exceeding $745,000.
00:23The figure is somewhat inflated because it includes a termination payment to the outgoing
00:27General Manager.
00:28Council's changing leadership had higher-than-normal wages bills as departing CEOs cashed out
00:33their leave.
00:34Penrith, Parramatta, Northern Beaches and Liverpool Plains councils all employed three
00:39CEOs over the financial year.
00:42There was a better indication of how much CEOs earned at the rest of the top ten councils
00:47as they only had one person in the role.
00:49The General Managers of Canterbury Bankstown, City of Sydney, Blacktown, Central Coast and
00:54Maitland all were on pay packets of more than half a million dollars.
00:58Why are they paid so much?
00:59Local government New South Wales says council CEOs oversee large and complex organisations
01:05managing millions of dollars' worth of infrastructure, services and staff.
01:10The organisation added that councils can be large enterprises with over 2,000 employees.