Accounts published by government roads quango National Highways this week reveal that its chief executive, Nick Harris, got paid 拢426,304 in 2024-25, including performance bonuses.
By comparison, prime minister Keir Starmer 鈥� who by most reckonings has a more important and more difficult job 鈥� has an annual salary of 拢172,153.
What鈥檚 more, Nick Harris was given an 8% bump in earnings last year while the troops got just 5%. The median salary at National Highways was聽拢39,477 last year, up聽from 拢37,697 in 2023-24.
The annual report also reveals that National Highways鈥� 6,800 staff each took an average of 11.7 days off sick last year 鈥� totalling more than 79,500 days, which, with roughly 260 working days in a year, equates to more than 300 years of working hours lost to sick leave in the agency last year alone.
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