# Lancashire County Council: senior pay and councillor allowances url: https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/councils/pay-and-allowances/lancashire-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) # Lancashire 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, Lancashire County Council reports total remuneration of **£301,874** for its chief executive (including employer pension contributions), a year in which the post changed hands, **70** employees paid £100,000 or more, and **£1,761,400** paid in members' allowances. ## Key figures - £301,874Chief Executive, 2025-26 - 70Staff paid £100,000 or more, 2025-26 - £1,761,400Members' allowances, 2025-26 - £14,301Basic allowance per councillor, 2025-26 ## Chief Executive Total remuneration of **£301,874** 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 - M WynnDetails | 2025-26 | £301,874 | | Year2025-26 | | | | Chief Executive - M Wynn (note 1)Details | 2024-25 | £187,478 | | Year2024-25 | | | | Chief Executive (note 2)Details | 2024-25 | £117,765 | | Year2024-25 | | | From the accounts: 2024/25 note 1: M Wynn was Interim Chief Executive 1 August 2024 to 17 October 2024, Acting Chief Executive 18 October 2024 to 25 February 2025, and appointed Chief Executive from 26 February 2025; she also appears as Executive Director of Resources (S151) to 31 July 2024 (salary 57,519, pension 8,866). Note 2: the previous postholder ceased to be Chief Executive from 25 September 2024 (no pension contributions due to opt-out). Total excluding pension is not printed. PDF pages 58-59 (printed pages 53-54), Note 10 ## Employees paid £50,000 or more 4,290 employees in 2025-26, up 32.0% on 2024-25 (3,250). 70 were paid £100,000 or more, 5.4 per 100,000 residents. The median among the 4 other county councils collected so far is 6.0 per 100,000. | Band | 2025-26 | 2024-25 | | --- | --- | --- | | £50,000 to £54,999Details | 1,816 | 1,310 | | 2024-251,310 | | | | £55,000 to £59,999Details | 961 | 771 | | 2024-25771 | | | | £60,000 to £64,999Details | 567 | 359 | | 2024-25359 | | | | £65,000 to £69,999Details | 248 | 259 | | 2024-25259 | | | | £70,000 to £74,999Details | 228 | 189 | | 2024-25189 | | | | £75,000 to £79,999Details | 160 | 161 | | 2024-25161 | | | | £80,000 to £84,999Details | 133 | 77 | | 2024-2577 | | | | £85,000 to £89,999Details | 60 | 37 | | 2024-2537 | | | | £90,000 to £94,999Details | 29 | 21 | | 2024-2521 | | | | £95,000 to £99,999Details | 18 | 14 | | 2024-2514 | | | | £100,000 to £104,999Details | 24 | 17 | | 2024-2517 | | | | £105,000 to £109,999Details | 12 | 12 | | 2024-2512 | | | | £110,000 to £114,999Details | 10 | 6 | | 2024-256 | | | | £115,000 to £119,999Details | 12 | 7 | | 2024-257 | | | | £120,000 to £124,999Details | 1 | 5 | | 2024-255 | | | | £125,000 to £129,999Details | 4 | 1 | | 2024-251 | | | | £130,000 to £134,999Details | 3 | 3 | | 2024-253 | | | | £135,000 to £139,999Details | 1 | 0 | | 2024-250 | | | | £140,000 to £144,999Details | 1 | 0 | | 2024-250 | | | | £145,000 to £174,999Details | 2 | 1 | | 2024-251 | | | Includes schools staff. Senior officers listed separately are not in these counts. From the accounts: 'The number of other employees whose remuneration, excluding pension contributions, exceeded £50,000'. Columns LCC non-schools staff, Schools and Total; counts are the Total column (4,290 in 2025/26; 3,250 in 2024/25). The 2025/26 table has an extra 'Redundancies' column (21 in total) printed beside the Total. Footnote: 'This table excludes staff in senior officer positions.' Top band combined as £145,000 to £174,999. Source: Lancashire County Council, [Statement of accounts 2025-26 - subject to audit](https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/media/0bal1icd/statement-of-accounts-for-2025-26-subject-to-audit.pdf) (draft), PDF page 60 (printed page 55), Note 10. Read by hand; checked 2026-09-24. ## Councillors' allowances £1,761,400 in 2025-26, down 1.6% on 2024-25 (£1,790,100), or £1.35 per resident. The median among the 4 other county councils collected so far is £1.22 per resident. | Paid as | Total | | --- | --- | | Basic allowances | £1,200,899 | | Special responsibility allowances | £534,733 | | Expenses | £21,231 | | All | £1,756,864 | The basic allowance for each councillor is £14,301 a year (2025-26). From the accounts: "Allowances payable to Members 1,740.0 (2024/25 1,764.4); Expenses payable to Members 21.4 (25.7); Total 1,761.4 (1,790.1) £000" (PDF page 62 (printed page 57), Note 11) Published allowances: [Members and Co-opted Members Allowances 2025-26](https://council.lancashire.gov.uk/documents/s286109/Payments%20made%20to%20Members%20Co-opted%20Members%202025%2026.pdf). ## What this data does and doesn't show - Every figure is as Lancashire 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. - Published 2025-26 Grand Total row: Basic Allowance 1,200,899; SRA 534,733; Subsistence 0; Public Transport 2,064; Mileage 19,067; Dependents' Carers Allowance 0; Expenses 100; Grand Total 1,756,864. 'expenses' is our sum of Public Transport, Mileage and Expenses (the printed columns differ from the Grand Total by £1 due to rounding). Scheme 2025-26: 'An annual Basic Allowance of £14,301* is payable to each councillor'; a 2026-27 scheme is also published (s286121). ## 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.