Eight employees at Barking and Dagenham Council raked in more than £100,000 a year, figures reveal.
Chief executive Chris Naylor and three others received pay packages greater than £150,000 in 2016/17, according to a libertarian pressure group.
The TaxPayers’ Alliance, who compiled the figures, said Mr Naylor received £207,479 total remuneration that financial year—£40,829 in employer pension contributions on top of his £166,650 salary.
The next seven highest-paid employees, who were unnamed, took home £141,051 on average.
They were among more than 400 employees handed the bumper sums across London, the data show.
Islington’s assistant chief executive received the largest remuneration of the capital’s councils: £414,780.
A spokesman for Barking and Dagenham Council branded the figures “out of date”.
“Since 2016, the council has reduced the numbers of senior managers and made savings of over £1 million in the process,” he said, adding that, for senior staff: “the council generally pays the same or lower than other neighbouring boroughs”.
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