Wow here's the earnings lists, yet they can not afford to collect bins once per week
What Greater Manchester council chief executives are paid:BOLTON Sean Harriss £170,000
BURY Mike Kelly £147,822
MANCHESTER Sir Howard Bernstein £203,934*
OLDHAM Charlie Parker £177,364*
ROCHDALE Jim Taylor £130,000
SALFORD Barbara Spicer £175,096
STOCKPORT Eamonn Boylan £170,051
TAMESIDE Steven Pleasant £166,929
TRAFFORD Theresa Grant £155,000
WIGAN Donna Hall £165,000
An extra charge on this year's council tax bill has been agreed to pay for Greater Manchester's mayor.
Householders will be charged an average of £7 annually to pay for ]
Andy Burnham's £110,000 salary, as well as his transport and housing plans.
The precept, agreed unanimously at a meeting of all ten council leaders, will also pay the £730,000 cost of running his office including his wages.
he Taxpayers' Alliance described the council tax rise as "pretty bad news".
Most people in Greater Manchester were not aware they would have to pay between £6 and £18 to have an elected mayor, the group claimed.
"It's been snuck up on quite a few Mancunians that was not really announced before," said the group's policy analyst Duncan Simpson.
"On the face of it, it does not seem a particularly amount of money.
"But there is no requirement for him to raise taxes.
"One should be very sceptical about the introduction of these taxes when the burden of council tax on all Manchester householders is already very high."
