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Chief officer salaries

Chief officer salaries are detailed on this page and are correct for the pay structure of 1 April 2023 to 1 April 2024.

Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) for Chief Executives and chief officer posts within bands, known as spinal column point (SCP).

Pay structure
Grade: JNC for chief officer posts within bands SCP Salary 2023 (£) Salary 2024 (£)
CEX:
Chief Executive (Pay award for 24/25 pending)		 861 198,521 198,521
860 194,840 194,840
859 191,159 191,159
Band H:
Executive Director (Children and Young People);
Executive Director (Health and Adult Care);
Executive Director (Operations);
Executive Director (Place);
Executive Director (Strategy and Transformation)		 846 139,067 142,543
845 135,561 138,950
844 132,823 136,143
843 129,666 132,907
842 127,377 130,562

Band F:

Director of Social Care & Early Help;

Director of Finance;

Director of Law and Democratic Services;

Director of Adult Social Services & Community Commissioning;

Director of Public Health;

Director of Education & Skills;

Director of Housing Operations

 835 112,636 115,452
834 110,365 113,124
833 108,132 110,835
832 105,943 108,591
831 103,767 106,361
Band E:
Director of People and Inclusion;
Director of Regeneration and Project Delivery;
Assistant Director of Operations		 830 101,596 104,135
829 99,414 101,899
828 97,309 99,741
827 95,202 97,582
826 93,102 95,430

Band D:
Assistant Director (Adult Social Care Operations);
Assistant Director (Digital, Data and Technology);
Assistant Director (Finance);
Assistant Director (Operations Strategy);
Assistant Director (Regeneration Delivery);
Assistant Director (Strategy, Planning and Development);

 825 90,992 93,267
824 88,889 91,111
823 86,966 89,140
822 85,412 87,548
821 83,865 85,962
Band B:
Head of Service (Inclusion and SEND);
Consultant in Public Health (Healthcare, Public Health and Health Protection);
Head of Human Resources;
Head of Legal Services;
Head of Strategy, Assurance and Reform;
Head of Communication, Engagement and Marketing		 815 74,619 76,485
814 73,066 74,892
813 71,625 73,416
812 70,166 71,920
811 68,714 70,431

Band A:
Children's Commissioning Lead;                                                                  Head of Service (My Home)
Head of Adult Safeguarding;
Head of Service (Corporate Parenting);
Head of Performance and Delivery;
Head of Service (Family Safegaurding & CWD);
Head of Service (Family Help);
Head of Service (Initial Response, Contextual Safeguarding & Mash);
Head of Governance;
Principal Social Worker and Head of Service (QA);
Neighbourhood Team Lead - two posts;
Intermediate Tier Lead;
Principal Social Worker (Adults);
Head of Engineering and Street Scene;
Strategic Lead (School System)

 810 67,263 68,944
809 65,812 67,457
808 64,375 65,984
807 62,919 64,492
806 61,463 63,000