One assumes that these figures are up to date, although some are questionably low. One also assumes that these are base salaries and don’t include bonuses and perks. Given its spectacular non-performance, why for example, is the boss of State Housing (Kainga Ora) at number 3 on the list?
A most enlightening schedule of CEO salaries; with the assumptions, noted.
And, importantly, the tax-payers of NEW ZEALAND are funding, in the main, these salaries.
Goodness me !!!!!!!!!!!!
No wonder there is no money left to fix our roads and the health system when the top echelon are all around the gravy train taxpayers money trough!
Not sure why you’re regurgitating Taxpayer Union “data” when this is all available online and for public scrutiny. Maybe because it shows a pretty one dimensional view of remuneration in the public sector. If the point of this was to show that Ashley is “overpaid” then this does not support that view. It would be more interesting to look at the combined salaries of the DHB heads… The ones that are all resigning ahead of the restructure. And what the new management structure will look like. It’s not far off.
Useful to view this against previous years, and see the freeze introduced as part of the COVID response. Nice graph that shows the trends and pay across private sector, crown entities and the public sector.
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/our-work/workforce-data/senior-leadership/senior-leader-remunerationpay/#s3
Thank you for your information, and for using your real name — most state employees don’t when commenting on here (and on other blogs.) It’s unclear what you mean by “one-dimensional”. The point we’ve made before is that State Sector employees are paid significantly more in Nu Tirani than Federal employees are in America, yet average working and middle class incomes there are higher. Just one more example of that: here a Supreme Court judge gets $525,000 while in America it is $US 274,000 or $NZ 397,000. Is the workload here significantly higher? We wouldn’t have thought so. Is there any explanation other than a deliberate widening of the income gap between the ruling class and the middle class?