Chief Officer and Heads of Service Salary Reviews

North West Employers can offer three different approaches to the review of salaries of Chief Officers and Heads of Service.

Option One

An analysis of current salaries against salary data collected regionally and nationally. This process will involve comparison with:

  1. Local authorities of similar size.
  2. Local authorities within the same audit family.
  3. Local authorities within the same market area.
  4. Attend any meetings with Elected Members where report is considered

This approach simply market-tests current salaries, but takes no account of job size, responsibilities and accountabilities.

Option Two

This approach involves:

  1. Interviews with all relevant Officers to clarify existing duties, roles and responsibilities.
  2. Drafting new agreed role descriptions that indicate key accountabilities, and principle role.
  3. Analysis of job size and production of a rank order.
  4. Construction of salary structure using job size and pay data.
  5. Production of draft report.
  6. Produce final report for submission to Members.
  7. Attend any meetings with Elected Members where report is considered.

Option Three

This approach will involve:

  1. Collection of existing job descriptions.
  2. 'Desk-top' evaluation of existing job descriptions to produce rank order.
  3. Construct salary structure.
  4. Produce draft report for discussion.
  5. Produce final report and attend meetings as required.

For further information on any of the above please contact Dave Campbell, Deputy Chief Executive, on 0161 214 7116, or click the link below to e-mail Dave.

Dave Campbell

Tel: 0161 834 9362 | Fax: 0161 831 7268 | Email: mail@nweo.org.uk