The amount county councillors and staff are being paid has been revealed.
There are currently two posts which see top-level staff paid more than £150,000.
Chief Executive Gillian Beasley is paid the most with a salary for 2019/2020 of £173,596.
This is an increase on 2016/17 when the executive salary was between £165,000 and £169,999.
The figures were released ahead of a County Council meeting, which took place last night (March 19).
This post is shared with Peterborough City Council, therefore Cambridgeshire County Council fund pay 50 per cent of this salary although Gillian is not directly employed by the authority.
Rachel Stopard the chief executive of Greater Cambridge Partnership is paid slightly less with a salary for 2019/2020 of £166,412.
The council not Greater Cambridgeshire Partnership is an independently operated entity and the cost of this post is shared with the partner organisations.
This means the chief executive is paid seven times the average council salary of £26,470.
£50,000 and above
There are currently 118 officers earning £50,000 or above. This compares to 106 officers that were earning £50,000 or above in 2018/2019.
And of all council salaries men are paid an average of 19 per cent more, an increase of one per cent from last year. This is despite the fact women comprise 80 per cent of the council's workforce.
The council say it is working to eliminate the gender pay inequality.
A Cambridgeshire County Council spokeswoman said: “Councils are large, complex organisations and need to recruit and retain the best people to lead them and make sure that they are effective.
“The County Council spends more than £820m per annum to deliver in the region of 1,300 different services that make a huge difference to people’s everyday lives.
“Independent evaluation of our costs has shown we are an efficient council with overall spend in the lowest quartile.
“The salaries of the majority of our most senior managers – including our CEO, Executive Director of People and Communities and Director of Public Health - are shared 50/50 with Peterborough City council, and a further 17 of our senior managers whose roles are within LGSS have their costs shared three ways with Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire councils. This allows us to retain high levels of expertise at a very cost effective rate for local residents.
“Since 2015 our work to share the most senior officers across Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City council means that we’ve reduced from 9 to 2 those to whom either council is paying more than £100k”
The CEO salary has been the same for 2017/18 and 2018/19 at £173,596
This salary is shared 50/50 with Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council.
