# Birmingham: senior pay and councillor allowances url: https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/councils/pay-and-allowances/birmingham/ updated: 29 September 2026 licence: Our words, analysis, charts and derived calculations: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), credit [Tekstak Ltd](https://tek-stak.co.uk). Figures: each source's own licence, listed under Sources. publisher: [Tekstak Ltd](https://tek-stak.co.uk) # Birmingham: senior pay and councillor allowances Last updated 29 September 2026. Figures refresh every night. [How each figure is worked out](/methodology/). In its draft statement of accounts for 2025-26, Birmingham reports total remuneration of **£397,097** for its managing director (including employer pension contributions), a year in which the post changed hands, **78** employees paid £100,000 or more, and **£2,600,000** paid in members' allowances. ## Key figures - £397,097Managing Director, 2025-26 - 78Staff paid £100,000 or more, 2025-26 - £2,600,000Members' allowances, 2025-26 - £22,596Basic allowance per councillor, 2026-27 ## Managing Director Total remuneration of **£397,097** in 2025-26, including employer pension contributions. The post changed hands, or the figure covers part of a year, so it is not compared with the year before. From the accounts: Joanne Roney, Managing Director, took up the role on 9 September 2024. 2025/26: salary 312,149, expenses 43, pension 84,905. 2024/25 (part year): salary 169,719, expenses 381, pension 46,164. Also in 2024/25: Professor Graeme Betts, 'Acting Chief Executive and Director Adult Social Care', total 164,390 (left 3 November 2024; acting-up payments of £3,380.45). Total excluding pension is not printed as a separate column. PDF pages 132 and 135 ## Employees paid £50,000 or more 2,973 employees in 2025-26, up 18.5% on 2024-25 (2,509). 78 were paid £100,000 or more, 6.6 per 100,000 residents. The median among the 4 other metropolitan borough councils collected so far is 7.7 per 100,000. | Band | 2025-26 | 2024-25 | | --- | --- | --- | | £50,000 to £59,999Details | 1,795 | 1,300 | | 2024-251,300 | | | | £60,000 to £69,999Details | 552 | 600 | | 2024-25600 | | | | £70,000 to £79,999Details | 301 | 263 | | 2024-25263 | | | | £80,000 to £89,999Details | 167 | 188 | | 2024-25188 | | | | £90,000 to £99,999Details | 80 | 61 | | 2024-2561 | | | | £100,000 to £109,999Details | 24 | 33 | | 2024-2533 | | | | £110,000 to £119,999Details | 17 | 26 | | 2024-2526 | | | | £120,000 and overDetails | 37 | 38 | | 2024-2538 | | | Includes schools staff. Senior officers listed separately are not in these counts. From the accounts: Council uses £10,000 bands with a top band of £120,000+. Headed 'Other Council employees receiving more than £50,000 remuneration for the year (excluding employer's pension contributions)'; split into 'Teaching Staff & Staff in Schools' and 'Other Council Employees'. Staff within Voluntary Aided and Foundation schools are excluded. Figures include employees with planned termination payments (94 in 2025/26). Source: Birmingham, [Draft Statement of Accounts 2025/26](https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/31848/draft_statement_of_accounts_2025_to_2026.pdf) (draft), PDF page 137. Read by hand; checked 2026-09-24. ## Councillors' allowances £2,600,000 in 2025-26, no change on 2024-25 (£2,600,000), or £2.21 per resident. The median among the 4 other metropolitan borough councils collected so far is £3.27 per resident. | Paid as | Total | | --- | --- | | Basic allowances | £1,903,912 | | Special responsibility allowances | £576,420 | | Expenses | £4,893 | | All | £2,485,224 | The basic allowance for each councillor is £22,596 a year (2026-27). From the accounts: "Allowances paid to Members of the Council in 2025/26 totalled £2.6m (2024/25: £2.6m). These figures include Members' allowances and expenses." (PDF page 131) Published allowances: [Payments made to City Councillors / *Co-opted Members in financial year 2024/25](https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/30357/payment_of_allowances_annual_schedule_2024_to_2025.pdf). ## What this data does and doesn't show - Every figure is as Birmingham printed it, in accounts that have not yet been audited. Counts in the £100,000 figure are our sum of the council's bands. - Comparisons are with the other metropolitan borough councils read so far; no national figure is published for England. - Accounts figures in £m as printed. Published 2024/25 schedule Grand Total row: Basic Allowance 1,903,911.86; Special Responsibility 576,419.59; Travel 887.86; Other Travel 543.70; Carers 3,461.08; Subsistence 0.00. 'expenses' is our sum of the travel, other travel, carers and subsistence columns and 'total' is our sum of all columns; the schedule prints no overall total. 2025/26 schedule not yet published at time of checking. Basic rate is the scheme appendix 'Members' Allowances Rates (from April 2026)'; the 2024/25 schedule shows a full-year basic allowance of 18,876.00. ## Related pages - [Back to Council senior pay and councillor allowances](https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/councils/pay-and-allowances/) - [How much is council tax and what does it pay for?](https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/council-tax/) - [Who is my MP, and what does their office cost?](https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/mps/) - [Where does my tax money actually go?](https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/for-every-100-pounds-of-tax/) ## More from this publisher - [UK tax calculators](https://howlongisit.co.uk) Published by [Tekstak Ltd](https://tek-stak.co.uk). Our words, analysis, charts and derived calculations: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), credit [Tekstak Ltd](https://tek-stak.co.uk). The figures belong to the publishers listed under Sources and are used under their licences. Figures last updated 29 September 2026.