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Leicester: senior pay and councillor allowances
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In its draft statement of accounts for 2025-26, Leicester reports total remuneration of £210,266 for its chief operating officer - alison greenhill (head of paid service) (including employer pension contributions), 19 employees paid £100,000 or more, and £1,113,163 paid in members' allowances.
Key figures
- £210,266Chief Operating Officer - Alison Greenhill (Head of Paid Service), 2025-26
- 19Staff paid £100,000 or more, 2025-26
- £1,113,163Members' allowances, 2025-26
- £13,646Basic allowance per councillor, 2026-27
Chief Operating Officer - Alison Greenhill (Head of Paid Service)
Total remuneration of £210,266 in 2025-26, including employer pension contributions. That is up 3.3% on 2024-25 (£203,533). The median among the 4 other unitary councils in England collected so far is £244,922.
From the accounts: Leicester's head of paid service is titled Chief Operating Officer. 2025/26: salary, fees and allowances 167,084; pension 43,182; compensation for loss of office -; total 210,266. 2024/25: 161,909; 41,624; -; 203,533. Total excluding pension is not printed.
PDF page 100, Note 32 Part 1
Employees paid £50,000 or more
1,034 employees in 2025-26, up 30.9% on 2024-25 (790). 19 were paid £100,000 or more, 5.0 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 |
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£50,000 to £54,999Details for £50,000 to £54,999 | 481 | 368 |
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£55,000 to £59,999Details for £55,000 to £59,999 | 242 | 158 |
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£60,000 to £64,999Details for £60,000 to £64,999 | 101 | 74 |
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£65,000 to £69,999Details for £65,000 to £69,999 | 54 | 61 |
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£70,000 to £74,999Details for £70,000 to £74,999 | 36 | 35 |
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£75,000 to £79,999Details for £75,000 to £79,999 | 50 | 44 |
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£80,000 to £84,999Details for £80,000 to £84,999 | 28 | 14 |
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£85,000 to £89,999Details for £85,000 to £89,999 | 7 | 9 |
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£90,000 to £94,999Details for £90,000 to £94,999 | 14 | 6 |
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£95,000 to £99,999Details for £95,000 to £99,999 | 2 | 4 |
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£100,000 to £104,999Details for £100,000 to £104,999 | 4 | 7 |
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£105,000 to £109,999Details for £105,000 to £109,999 | 7 | 3 |
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£110,000 to £114,999Details for £110,000 to £114,999 | 2 | 2 |
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£115,000 to £119,999Details for £115,000 to £119,999 | 0 | 2 |
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£120,000 to £124,999Details for £120,000 to £124,999 | 2 | 3 |
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£125,000 to £129,999Details for £125,000 to £129,999 | 3 | 0 |
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£130,000 to £134,999Details for £130,000 to £134,999 | 1 | 0 |
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Includes schools staff. Senior officers listed separately are not in these counts. From the accounts: Part 2 'Higher Paid Employees': 'The number of other Council employees receiving more than £50,000 remuneration ... the table excludes the senior officers listed in the previous table. These figures include teaching, senior leadership and support staff within local authority schools.' Remuneration excludes employer's pension contributions and includes compensation for loss of office. Non-Schools, Schools and Total; counts are Total (1,034 in 2025/26; 790 in 2024/25). Dashes recorded as 0.
Source: Leicester, Draft Annual Accounts 2025/2026 (draft), PDF page 101, Note 32 Part 2. Read by hand; checked 2026-09-24.
Councillors' allowances
£1,113,163 in 2025-26, up 1.1% on 2024-25 (£1,101,404), or £2.91 per resident. The median among the 7 other unitary councils in England collected so far is £3.81 per resident.
The basic allowance for each councillor is £13,646 a year (2026-27).
From the accounts: "Basic Allowance Payments 748,318 (2024/25 727,236); Special Responsibility Payments 364,064 (373,407); General Expense Payments 781 (761); Total 1,113,163 (1,101,404)" (PDF page 99, Note 31)
What this data does and doesn't show
- Every figure is as Leicester 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.
- Leicester has an elected City Mayor; the head of paid service is the Chief Operating Officer. The council's scheme page states 'The scheme detailed here has been in force since 1 April 2026' with a basic allowance of '£13,646 per annum for each Member'. The 2025/26 scheme PDF on cabinet.leicester.gov.uk could not be downloaded. Allowances paid are published as an open-data dataset (not summed here).