# Hampshire County Council: senior pay and councillor allowances url: https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/councils/pay-and-allowances/hampshire-county-council/ 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) # Hampshire County Council: 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, Hampshire County Council reports total remuneration of **£193,773** for its chief executive (including employer pension contributions), a year in which the post changed hands, **97** employees paid £100,000 or more, and **£1,649,000** paid in members' allowances. ## Key figures - £193,773Chief Executive, 2025-26 - 97Staff paid £100,000 or more, 2025-26 - £1,649,000Members' allowances, 2025-26 ## Chief Executive Total remuneration of **£193,773** 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. | As printed | Year | Total | | --- | --- | --- | | Chief Executive, Carolyn Williamson (with effect until 03/08/2025)Details | 2025-26 | £104,135 | | Year2025-26 | | | | Chief Executive, Gary Westbrook (with effect from 04/08/2025)Details | 2025-26 | £193,773 | | Year2025-26 | | | | Chief Executive, Carolyn WilliamsonDetails | 2024-25 | £297,229 | | Year2024-25 | | | From the accounts: Mid-year change in 2025/26; 'current' is the post holder at year end (Gary Westbrook, from 04/08/2025). Expense allowances, benefits in kind and compensation for loss of office are 0 on all three chief executive lines. A total excluding pension is not printed. Gary Westbrook also appears earlier in 2025/26 as 'Director of Hampshire 2050 and Deputy Chief Executive (with effect until 03/08/2025)'. PDF pages 64-65, Note 8b ## Employees paid £50,000 or more 4,126 employees in 2025-26, up 16.9% on 2024-25 (3,529). 97 were paid £100,000 or more, 6.7 per 100,000 residents. The median among the 4 other county councils collected so far is 5.4 per 100,000. | Band | 2025-26 | 2024-25 | | --- | --- | --- | | £50,000 to £54,999Details | 1,615 | 1,284 | | 2024-251,284 | | | | £55,000 to £59,999Details | 770 | 685 | | 2024-25685 | | | | £60,000 to £64,999Details | 593 | 480 | | 2024-25480 | | | | £65,000 to £69,999Details | 294 | 256 | | 2024-25256 | | | | £70,000 to £74,999Details | 260 | 292 | | 2024-25292 | | | | £75,000 to £79,999Details | 152 | 154 | | 2024-25154 | | | | £80,000 to £84,999Details | 134 | 109 | | 2024-25109 | | | | £85,000 to £89,999Details | 113 | 83 | | 2024-2583 | | | | £90,000 to £94,999Details | 60 | 57 | | 2024-2557 | | | | £95,000 to £99,999Details | 38 | 28 | | 2024-2528 | | | | £100,000 to £104,999Details | 14 | 22 | | 2024-2522 | | | | £105,000 to £109,999Details | 27 | 19 | | 2024-2519 | | | | £110,000 to £114,999Details | 12 | 15 | | 2024-2515 | | | | £115,000 to £119,999Details | 10 | 9 | | 2024-259 | | | | £120,000 to £124,999Details | 6 | 10 | | 2024-2510 | | | | £125,000 to £129,999Details | 11 | 7 | | 2024-257 | | | | £130,000 to £134,999Details | 8 | 2 | | 2024-252 | | | | £135,000 to £139,999Details | 5 | 6 | | 2024-256 | | | | £140,000 to £144,999Details | 0 | 2 | | 2024-252 | | | | £145,000 to £149,999Details | 1 | 3 | | 2024-253 | | | | £150,000 to £154,999Details | 1 | 1 | | 2024-251 | | | | £165,000 to £169,999Details | 2 | 1 | | 2024-251 | | | | £170,000 to £174,999Details | 0 | 2 | | 2024-252 | | | | £190,000 to £194,999Details | 0 | 1 | | 2024-251 | | | | £215,000 to £219,999Details | 0 | 1 | | 2024-251 | | | Includes schools staff. Senior officers listed separately are not in these counts. From the accounts: Note 8a: 'The number of employees whose remuneration during the year was £50,000 or more, in bands of £5,000, is shown here, excluding those that are senior employees (see note 8b).' Two side-by-side tables are printed: including termination payments (used here; totals 4,126 in 2025/26, 3,529 in 2024/25) and excluding termination payments (totals 4,101 and 3,385). Split into Schools and Other; counts are the Total column. In two rows (£125,000-£129,999 and £135,000-£139,999, 2025/26) the printed Total differs from Schools plus Other; the printed Total is used. The council says the current-year figures are affected by a timing difference because the taxable value of expenses is not available until after the draft accounts are produced. Source: Hampshire County Council, [Unaudited Statement of Accounts 2025/26](https://documents.hants.gov.uk/finance/HCC-Statement-of-accounts-2025-26.pdf) (draft), PDF page 63, Note 8a. Read by hand; checked 2026-09-24. ## Councillors' allowances £1,649,000 in 2025-26, up 3.7% on 2024-25 (£1,590,000), or £1.14 per resident. The median among the 4 other county councils collected so far is £1.29 per resident. From the accounts: "Members' Allowances (chart, £'000): Allowances 1,592 (2024/25 1,530); Expenses 57 (60); Total 1,649 (1,590)" (PDF page 67, Note 9) Published allowances: . ## What this data does and doesn't show - Every figure is as Hampshire County Council 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 county councils read so far; no national figure is published for England. - Accounts figures for members' allowances are read from bar-chart labels in Note 9 (no table is printed). The council's allowances page directs readers to individual councillor pages on democracy.hants.gov.uk; no single annual total publication was found. The IRP public notice sets the 2022/23-2025/26 scheme with Basic Allowances adjusted annually in line with the pay award for Senior Managers at Grade H but does not state the 2025/26 amount; the amount was not found in a council document within the time available. 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