Chief executive of Sheffield City Council, Kate Josephs, on £21,000-a-month, town hall rich list reveals
Sheffield’s top council worker takes home the equivalent of £21,793-a-month, new figures show.
Chief executive Kate Josephs is on £261,522, a year including pension, according to the Taxpayers’ Alliance.
The whopping pay packet is more than eight times the Sheffield average of £31,000-a-year.
It is more than double the mayor of South Yorkshire, Oliver Coppard, on £107,000-a-year and it tops even the prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Sir Keir Starmer, on £172,153.
In contrast, her political counterpart, Coun Tom Hunt, leader of Sheffield City Council, received allowances totalling £15,477 last year.
Ms Josephs, who weathered a Covid Partygate scandal in 2022, is one of three people at the authority to receive more than £200,000-a-year.
Ajman Ali, executive director of neighbourhood services, and Kate Martin, executive director of city futures, are on £200,175.
As of January 2026, the average house in Sheffield cost £223,000.
The trio are part of a seven-strong Senior Leadership Team of executive and strategic directors costing a total of £1.5m-a-year, with the lowest paid on £128,832.
The Taxpayers’ Alliance has figures for eight less senior directors on between £90,000 and £142,000.
They are likely to be among 17 directors outside the senior leadership team, all likely to be on similar pay.
John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "Taxpayers are caught in a pincer movement with a record-breaking tax burden on one side and a bloated public sector feathering its nest on the other.
“Our latest Town Hall Rich List exposes a surging class of council bosses enjoying six-figure packages, even as they plead poverty, slash frontline services, and hike council tax bills far beyond inflation.”
In March, Sheffield City Council confirmed the maximum 4.99 per cent increase in Council Tax for the this year.