Kiwiblog Blog Archive SPARC salaries Quote:
National revealed 55% of SPARC staff earn over $100K a year. He wondered how that compares with other government agencies. Now Bernard could have chosen a lightweight agency such as Youth Affairs to compare to, but he chose the Reserve Bank - can’t get much more critical than that. What does he find:The Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s annual report shows that it has 221 staff and that 71 or 32% of those are paid more than NZ$100,000. Over 55% of Sparc staff are paid over the NZ$100,000 threshold. There are 25 staff at the RBNZ who are paid more than NZ$150,000 or 11% of staff.
That compares with Sparc’s 16% of staff who are paid more than NZ$150,000. The total remuneration cost for the RBNZ in 2006/07 was NZ$21.8 million or an average of NZ$96,642 per staff member. That’s 24% less than the average for Sparc of NZ$129,411.
So we are paying our Reserve Bank staff 24% less than our sports funding agency staff.
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So a bunch of people who's job is trying to get more people to play sport are getting paid more than those responsible for the economy. Right.
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Bernard also has a lot of good stuff on the $18 million SPARC is planning to spend on their websites, on how Trade Me and Staff websites have cost far less than this, and how the traffic to the SPARC sites appears to be so small it is unmeasurable.
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Multiply this kind of wastage out through all the government departments, SOE’s, etc., (and add kiwirail to the bill) and watch the millions add up. It seems that this country has become so top-heavy with over-paid bureaucrats doing pointless non-essential jobs that its about to collapse.
I think its about time we had a Minister of Bureaucratic Reduction to sort this mess out and get the country running efficiently again...