Pay bonanza as six-figure salaries double

THE number of Oxfam staff earning six-figure salaries has doubled in seven years.

In 2009/10 the charity employed five executives on more than £100,000 a year. The latest figures, for 2016/17, show the total reached 11, including chief executive Mark goldring who earned £127,753.

On top of his salary, Mr goldring claimed expenses of £12,006 and was handed pension contributions of £12,818. The figures, published in Oxfam’s annual reports, reveal the number of staff with salaries of more than £60,000 has almost tripled from 32 to 93 over the seven-year period, while the total wage bill increased 48 per cent to £121.9million last year.

deputy chief executive Penny lawrence was on £99,082, plus £9,941 pension contributions, before she resigned on Monday. last night a spokesman for the charity said: ‘Oxfam is very aware of not allowing senior pay to escalate by more than necessary while still enabling us to recruit and retain staff.’

She claimed Mr goldring’s salary was less than bosses at other charities of similar size and scope, ‘and considerably less than someone could expect to earn running an organisation of the same size and complexity in the private sector’.