Sunday 4 November 2007

NUMBER CRUNCHING PEN PUSHER STYLE

Unlike their athletic counterparts who are training for the 2012 Olympics on shoe string budgets (if at all), the pen pushers are raking it in. Earning more than the PM, the bureaucrats planning the Games are pulling in six figure salaries. Here are some details for the Olympic Delivery Authority:


DAVID HIGGINS – CHIEF EXECUTIVE - £631,000


SUPPORT STAFF - (4 MEMBERS) - £200,000 +


AVERAGE SALARY - £100,000


2 OFFICIALS ARE PAID MORE THAN £600,000


WAGES AND SALARIES OF £5.3 MILLION WERE PAID TO ONLY 56% OF EMPLOYEES


£118,569 PAID TO AGENCY STAFF


It doesn’t stop there. Lord Coe, the former runner who had to exist on funding which was below unemployment benefit levels, has picked up whopping £285,000 (London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games) and his chief executive Paul Deighton, £536,000.


Alex Story, who rowed for Britain in the 1996 games sums it all up:


“The 2012 Games seems to have become a gravy train for pen pushers”

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