Current status: Answered by John Swinney on 13 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many of its staff receive a salary of over £100,000 per annum, broken down by directorate, and what the total cost of those staff salaries is.
Pay for staff in the Senior Civil Service is reserved and operates within the UK Cabinet Office pay and performance management framework.
As at 30 November 2022, a total of 41 staff earning over £100,000 per annum were employed in Core Scottish Government at a total salary cost of £4,552,993. This represents 0.45% of the total number of staff employed in Core Scottish Government. The following table provides a breakdown by Directorate General area.
Directorate General | Number of Staff |
Strategy & External Affairs (1) | 12 |
Communities | 3 |
Corporate | 7 |
Economy | 4 |
Education & Justice | 3 |
Health & Social Care | 5 |
Net Zero | 2 |
Scottish Exchequer | 4 |
Permanent Secretary | 1 |
(1) The increase for Strategy and External Affairs (in comparison to information provided in February 2022) reflects the outcome of a pay restructuring exercise carried out in relation to specialist parliamentary counsel staff so as to bring pay arrangements for those staff more into line with the pay arrangements for parliamentary counsel staff in other Government jurisdictions (e.g. UK Government, Welsh Government) in order to support the recruitment and retention of staff with those specialist skills and expertise. Of the 12 staff reported above: 8 are employed in the Parliamentary Counsel Office; 1 is employed in the Director General office; 1 is employed in the External Affairs Directorate; 1 is employed in the Constitution and Cabinet Directorate; and 1 is employed in the Strategy Directorate.