Arundel And Brighton: Not The Only Good Place

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Following Fr Ray Blake's comment on my last post, I decided to look at the accounts of each of the diocesan trusts in England and Wales to see if the earnings were as good elsewhere in Arundel and Brighton.
 
Here they are, but with a serious health warning:

	£60K-£69K	£70K-£79K	£80K-£89K	£90K-£99K
Arundel and Brighton	1	4		1
Birmingham	1
Brentwood	1
Cardiff	0
Clifton	0
East Anglia	0
Hallam	1
Hexham and Newcastle			1
Lancaster	0
Leeds	0
Liverpool	0
Menevia	0
Middlesbrough	0
Northampton	2
Nottingham	0
Plymouth	2
Portsmouth	1	1		1
Salford		2
Shrewsbury	1		1
Southwark	1		1
Westminster	3	2
Wrexham	0

The health warning is that while these figures are accurate, they may not be complete.  The finances of the dioceses of England and Wales are not an area to venture into unless you are intrepid, and it is clear to me that several dioceses have their money in a number of different trusts which may not have appeared in my searches, which were pretty basic: maybe I haven't caught all the high paid staff.  Furthermore, hiring as diocesan Director of Education a not-yet-retired head teacher, versus hiring one with a pension who would love a 42 hour week might make a massive financial impact but still deliver the same result.

There were two in the £60K+ and one in the £70K+ category in the Catholic Trust for England and Wales, which supports the CBCEW.

My guess is that if you ignore the first column and accept that £60-70K is not a lot of money to pay for a first-rate administrator nowadays, the only questions (apart from Westminster's need for three when Southwark seems to manage with one) are about the dioceses in which people are earning more than £70K.

I don't know for whom "more than £70K" isn't a lot of money, but I bet it isn't many of the people who are actually paying their wages.

If anybody would like to do more digging (and if I never see another balance sheet again in my life I still count as wasted the minutes in which I have) then all the information and more is available at the Charity Commission website, but be warned, you'll have to work.
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