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# Top Christchurch Council Boss Salaries Dwarf Average Worker Pay
- URL: https://goodoil.news/top-christchurch-council-boss-salaries-dwarf-average-worker-pay/
- Published: 2020-06-12T21:40:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-06-12T21:41:21.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

Christchurch City Council’s best-paid 57 staff together earn almost $11 million a year – their average salary of nearly $200,000 more than three and a half times that of a typical Kiwi worker.

Senior staff pay has come under scrutiny since it was revealed that around a quarter earn more than $100,000 a year, based on equivalent full-time staffing.

Including part-time staff to reflect the full 2829-strong workforce, that figure falls to one in five.

The council’s payroll bill of $193.5m has leapt from 25 per cent to nearly 40 per cent of its operating costs over the last six years.

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