Top public servants’ earnings beat Anna

FAT cats are earning up to $1.2 million a year to run the state’s ballooning bureaucracy, with more than a dozen departmental heads now paid more than even Queensland’s Premier.

The top-paid public servant is Queensland Treasury Corporation chief executive Philip Noble, who earned a $1.22 million pay package including a $699,000 base salary and a $469,000 bonus in 2017/18.

Queensland Rail boss Nick Easy earned a $755,000 salary package including base pay of $666,000, more than Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who earns $538,460 a year.

Police Commissioner Ian Stewart pocketed a $39,000 pay rise to earn a $508,000 base salary as part of a $614,000 package.

Analysis of financial records, from a document dump of 72 government reports released over the long weekend, reveals that more than a dozen public servant mandarins pocketed more than the Premier’s $400,000 base salary last financial year.

Dave Stewart, the directorgeneral of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, was paid a $654,000 base salary, 254,000 more than his boss, Annastacia Palaszczuk.

Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young scored a $67,000 pay rise to earn a $622,000 pay package.