PAY rates awarded to the island’s town clerks were revealed in Tynwald.
In a written reply to a question from Peter Karran (Lib Van, Onchan), Infrastructure Minister David Cretney revealed that top of the league for employment costs was the Douglas’s town clerk at more than £100,000 including employer’s National Insurance and pension contributions.
Costs of employing Ramsey’s town clerk was between £80,000 and £100,000, while the figures for the chief executives of Onchan and Port Erin Commissioners, and Peel’s town clerk, were each between £60,000 and £80,000.
Next highest were the town clerks at Castletown and Port St Mary whose posts commanded a figure between £40,000 and £60,000. The part time posts at Laxey and Michael were awarded between £20,000 and £40,000.
Mr Karran had asked for the employment costs of the chief executive or equivalent officer of each town, village and district authority and details of their terms of contract.
Figures for the smaller parishes were not included in Mr Cretney’s written answer as those figures had not been requested.
Mr Cretney pointed out that it was down to the individual local authority to set the level of pay and terms and conditions for their clerks or chief executives, but he added that it was his department that was responsible for approving appointments to these positions.