Staff pay and executive emoluments

Release date:
1 May 2018

You asked

I would like to request information on staff pay and executive emoluments under the Freedom of Information Act.

For the avoidance of doubt, remuneration in this request includes (a) salary, (b) fees, (c) taxable allowances, (d) bonuses, (e) benefits in kind,( f) compensation for loss of office and (g) employer's pension contributions.

  1. For UK Statistics Authority, please provide the number of staff in each of the following remuneration brackets:
    a) Under £100k
    b) £100 k- £150k
    c) £151k -£250k
    d) £251+
    e) Total number of staff (should be sum of a to d)

  2. Broken down by financial year since 2010, please provide a breakdown of the remuneration (with a column for each letter given above in definition) for employees earning over £100k. Please include their job title as well.

We said

Thank you for your request. The answers to your questions are as follows;

Financial Year Head count of staff receiving remuneration less than £100k Head count of staff receiving remuneration between £100k and £150k Head count of staff receiving remuneration between £151k and £250k Head count of staff receiving remuneration greater than £251k
2009/10 4,635 17 5 0
2010/11 4,449 11 5 0
2011/12 4,139 10 4 0
2012/13 3,997 9 2 0
2013/14 4,029 10 1 0
2014/15 4,231 11 1 0
2015/16 4,674 11 2 0
2016/17 4,662 13 3 0
2017/18 4,964 14 5 0

Note

The head counts above reflect the number of staff paid during the listed financial years, they preclude Census Field Force and are not connected to head counts reported at a point in time during the said years.
Remuneration of Executive Directors for the UK Statistics Authority and the Office for National Statistics can be found in the Annual report and Accounts which can be accessed via UK Statistics Authority website;

2009/10 https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/resource-accounts-200910/
2010/11 https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/resource-accounts-201011/
2011/12 https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/annual-report-and-accounts-201112/
2012/13 https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/annual-report-and-accounts-201213/
2013/14 https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/annual-report-and-accounts-201314/
2014/15 https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/annual-report-and-accounts-201415/
2015/16 https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/annual-report-and-accounts-201516/
2016/17 https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/annual-report-and-accounts-201617/
2017/18 These accounts will be published once they have been laid before Parliament.

Census Field Force – data collection period

During March 2010/11 994 field staff were employed pre Census Day, during 2011/12 30,000 staff were employed during the data collection period; all staff remuneration was less then £100k.

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