# Bristol: senior pay and councillor allowances url: https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/councils/pay-and-allowances/bristol/ 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) # Bristol: 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, Bristol reports total remuneration of **£237,281** for its chief executive & head of paid service (including employer pension contributions), a year in which the post changed hands, **14** employees paid £100,000 or more, and **£1,752,000** paid in members' allowances. ## Key figures - £237,281Chief Executive & Head of Paid Service, 2025-26 - 14Staff paid £100,000 or more, 2025-26 - £1,752,000Members' allowances, 2025-26 - £18,227Basic allowance per councillor, current (web page checked September 2026) ## Chief Executive & Head of Paid Service Total remuneration of **£237,281** in 2025-26, including employer pension contributions. Excluding pension contributions: £197,982. The post changed hands, or the figure covers part of a year, so it is not compared with the year before. The median among the 5 other unitary councils in England collected so far is £244,575. From the accounts: 2025/26: N Hibberd, Apr '25 - Mar '26: salary, fees and allowances 197,982; pension 39,299; total 237,281. 2024/25 lines as printed: S Peacock, Apr-Jun '24 (left 9 June 2024), total 43,177 (pension 7,286); P Martin, Chief Executive & Head of Paid Service (Interim), Jun-Dec '24, total 231,314 'cost inclusive of agency fees', no pension; N Hibberd, from 6 January 2025, salary 45,382, pension 9,213, total 54,595. totalExclPension is the printed 'Salary, Fees and Allowances' column. PDF pages 85-86 (printed pages 82-83) ## Employees paid £50,000 or more 1,042 employees in 2025-26, up 15.6% on 2024-25 (901). 14 were paid £100,000 or more, 2.8 per 100,000 residents. The median among the 7 other unitary councils in England collected so far is 4.9 per 100,000. | Band | 2025-26 | 2024-25 | | --- | --- | --- | | £50,000 to £54,999Details | 459 | 446 | | 2024-25446 | | | | £55,000 to £59,999Details | 252 | 171 | | 2024-25171 | | | | £60,000 to £64,999Details | 63 | 59 | | 2024-2559 | | | | £65,000 to £69,999Details | 71 | 71 | | 2024-2571 | | | | £70,000 to £74,999Details | 42 | 47 | | 2024-2547 | | | | £75,000 to £79,999Details | 53 | 42 | | 2024-2542 | | | | £80,000 to £84,999Details | 41 | 32 | | 2024-2532 | | | | £85,000 to £89,999Details | 32 | 6 | | 2024-256 | | | | £90,000 to £94,999Details | 9 | 9 | | 2024-259 | | | | £95,000 to £99,999Details | 6 | 6 | | 2024-256 | | | | £100,000 to £104,999Details | 2 | 2 | | 2024-252 | | | | £105,000 to £109,999Details | 2 | 2 | | 2024-252 | | | | £110,000 to £114,999Details | 3 | 0 | | 2024-250 | | | | £115,000 to £119,999Details | 0 | 2 | | 2024-252 | | | | £120,000 to £124,999Details | 1 | 1 | | 2024-251 | | | | £125,000 to £129,999Details | 1 | 2 | | 2024-252 | | | | £130,000 to £134,999Details | 1 | 2 | | 2024-252 | | | | £135,000 to £139,999Details | 3 | 1 | | 2024-251 | | | | £140,000 to £144,999Details | 1 | 0 | | 2024-250 | | | Includes schools staff. Senior officers listed separately are not in these counts. From the accounts: 'In addition to the remuneration of senior employees set out above, the number of the Council's employees receiving more than £50,000 remuneration for the year (excluding employer's contributions)'. Printed as separate Schools and Non-Schools columns with no combined column; totals Schools 201 / Non-Schools 841 (2025/26) and 175 / 726 (2024/25). Dashes recorded as 0. Source: Bristol, [Bristol City Council 2025 26 Draft Statement of Accounts](https://www.bristol.gov.uk/files/documents/11148-bristol-city-council-2025-26-draft-statement-of-accounts/file) (draft), PDF page 87 (printed page 84). Read by hand; checked 2026-09-24. ## Councillors' allowances £1,752,000 in 2025-26, up 8.2% on 2024-25 (£1,619,000), or £3.54 per resident. The median among the 7 other unitary councils in England collected so far is £3.81 per resident. | Paid as | Total | | --- | --- | | Basic allowances | £1,246,184 | | Special responsibility allowances | £482,666 | | Expenses | £2,172 | | All | £1,746,522 | The basic allowance for each councillor is £18,227 a year (current (web page checked September 2026)). From the accounts: "The Council paid the following amounts to members of the Council during the year. Allowances 1,752 (2024/25 1,619) £'000" (PDF page 84 (printed page 81), note 12) Published allowances: [Councillors statement of allowances paid 2025 2026 (spreadsheet: Councillor Remuneration for year ending 31/03/2026)](https://www.bristol.gov.uk/files/documents/10849-councillors-statement-of-allowances-paid-2025-2026/file). ## What this data does and doesn't show - Every figure is as Bristol 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 unitary councils in England read so far; no national figure is published for England. - Published 2025/26 statement is a spreadsheet listing 70 councillors with no totals row; figures are our column sums: Basic Allowance 1,246,184.44; Extra Responsibility Allowance 482,665.94; 'Allowance' 15,500.00; Broadband 0; Travel 2,171.64; Other Expenses 0; Child Care 0; Total ER Cost 1,746,522.02. 'sra' is the Extra Responsibility Allowance column; 'expenses' is travel, other expenses, child care and broadband; the unlabelled 'Allowance' column (15,500) is in the total only. The council web page states 'The basic allowance of £18,227 is paid to all 70 councillors' without giving the year; the 2025/26 spreadsheet shows full-year basic payments of 17,645.04 to 17,951.07. ## 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). 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