Should the clerks salary be shown on the outgoings for monthly expenditure?

Question

Recently changed clerks, last clerks renumeration was always shown, but now shown as an outgoing with no figures applied.

Answer 1

Unless the Clerk earns over £50000, there is no requirement to publish their salary.  Most councils will publish a total amount for wages (including NI, pension etc) in their financial statements in order to give the clerk an element of privacy in their employment details.

Answer 2

My council publishes a global figure for gross salary for all staff each month but that's a bit pointless if you've only one member of staff, however.  I have a clerk friend who always puts her salary on the payments list as, in her words, at least people might feel sorry for her!  Staff costs are, of course, shown as a separate figure on the Annual Governance and Accounting Return so its hardly a secret but net figures etc. should been private in my view.