The Scottish public sector rich list – great work if you can get it

This was a topic in the UK that flew a bit under the radar but again the TaxPayers alliance published data regarding salaries of various people in Scotland. I received this from a disgruntled Scot and fair enough looking at the state of the country, kind of got a right to be annoyed.

Now the issue here is that the Scottish government, or to be exact the SNP are constantly whining about lack of money and have their cap out trying to beg for more.

A bigger truth is that they are utterly incompetent financially, wasting money on stupid projects (we will come to that in another article), handing money out for climate change TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES , running embassies abroad at great cost and basically many people appear to be very well paid for what they do. Meanwhile services around Scotland get worse and ironically thats often in SNP councils

Overview

Scotland has a devolved administration which has significant control over a wide array of public organisations beneath it.

The Scottish government has a range of responsibilities including matters relating to the economy, education, health, justice, housing, environment and taxation.

Scottish government spending increased by £9.2 billion from 2021-22 to 2022-23 up to £106.6 billion.

To cover these costs the Scottish government has implemented a new 45 per cent rate on income between £75,000 and £125,000 as well as an additional 1p increase on the top rate of tax, meaning it has a higher top rate of tax than the rest of the UK.

Key info

• In 2022-23, the Scottish public sector employed at least 1,414 people who received over £100,000 in total remuneration. Of these, 291 employees received over £150,000.
• In 2022-23, the organisation with the highest number of employees with remuneration of more than £100,000 was the University of Glasgow with 209.
• The University of Edinburgh had the highest number of employees receiving more than £150,000, with 44.
• Universities in Scotland were the public body with the highest number of employees with total remuneration more than £100,000, with 839 in 2022-23. 146 of these staff members received over £150,000.
• The former first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, received total remuneration of £135,938 in 2022-23. This was comprised of £97,666 in salary and £38,272 in pension benefits.

So you see politics and education do pay well

Data

We will look at one example – and we'll get back to this lot in a future article

If your counting thats 4 million pounds a year

So the next time your council has to cut back – be thankful that 2 universities have combined salaries for employees of 51 million pounds

We will be covering more of this – we have a couple of angry scots keen to write a few articles.

Link

You can download the data from the link below, I did. Its staggering.

https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/scottish_public_sector_rich_list#_ftnref1