WHITTLESEA: Did CEO score $100,000 pay rise?
City of Whittlesea Chief Executive Officer Craig Lloyd (pictured) appears to have scored an annual pay rise of more than $100,000, to take his salary to more than $500,000.
The latest Council annual report lists the municipality’s top earner to receive between $500,000-$509,999.
The $½-million level equals a weekly pay packet of $9615.
In the previous financial year, the Council’s top wage earner was listed at $390,000-$399,999.
If this pay rise occurred, it appears to have been decided at a meeting of the Council Administrators either on August 15, 2023, or on their final day on September 17 last year.
Administrators Lydia Wilson, Peita Duncan and Christian Zahra met on August 15, 2023, and voted to discuss ‘CEO Employment Matters’ in secret.
They invoked the confidentiality requirement in that a report “contains personal information, being information which if released would result in the unreasonable disclosure of information about any person or their personal affairs”.
“In particular, the attachments contain information regarding the CEO’s employment, performance and remuneration.”
A payrise decision from the Administrators’ final 19-minute meeting (Sept. 17, 2024) would allow the new pay rate exceeding $500,000 to be reported in the 2024-25 annual report.