Southend Labour Councillor Julian Ware Lane criticises the head of the East of England Ambulance trust here, who apparently receives ?232,000 plus expenses.
Julian writes:
The story of the last few years has been of a growing pay divide with some Chief Executives like Dr. Marsh receiving salary bumps well in excess of those who work for them. Their pay rises are well in excess of inflation, whilst those that work for them are lucky to see a 1% rise.
You cannot just quote a salary without looking at what that person is responsible for, this are the figures for 2010:
* 273 emergency ambulances
* 237 non-emergency ambulances
* 215 marked rapid-response cars
* 25 major incident support vehicles; decontamination equipment, and mobile control rooms
* 110 ambulance stations and response posts
* 3 Health Emergency Operations Centres (control rooms) in Bedford, Chelmsford and Norwich
* The Trust provides its own in-house driving school, which has trained over 220 drivers in emergency driving.
* The Trust employs 3,994 people, including 2,516 involved in frontline accident and emergency operations.
The question of performance is a different one but what do you expect to pay – the minimum wage….
How comes so many CEOs of companies are paid so much more than the prime minister. not saying he’s doing a good job and needs more money – but in terms of ‘being responsible for’ – surely he is responsible for more?
i dont know any in depth details, for forgive me if it’s a dumb observation, but it’s always seemed weird to me.
I think the point he is making is that the man in charge gets a higher pay rise percentage wise than that of a paramedic. Of course some roles deserve a high wage. The problem is that the gap between the highly paid and the low paid is steadily increasing. Even some Conservatives are beginning to see that the wages at the top soaring away while lower paid people have to suffer wage stagnation is not sustainable as people need expendable income for capitalism to function well.