What our department chiefs earned in 2010-11:
Mick Reid – Queensland Health $646000
Gerard Bradley – Queensland Treasury $566000
Ken Smith – Premier and Cabinet $536000
Ian Fletcher – Employment Economic Development and Innovation $484000
Dave Stewart – Transport and Main Roads – $462000
Mal Grierson – Public Works $458000
John Bradley – Environment and Resource Management – $438000
Julie Grantham – Education and Training – $433000
Jim McGowan – Community Safety – $431000
Linda Apelt – Communities – $399000
Philip Reed – Justice and Attorney-General – $313000
Local Government and Planning (department head changed multiple times) – $412000
In the case of Queensland Health the salaries debacle was part of what was paid for.
Peter Borrows – CEO of SEQ Water – $494732. He is the CEO who oversaw the decision not to release water from Wivenhoe Dam when the Bureau of Meteorology told him the rain forecasts with the result that Brisbane flooded. He was also in charge of planning during the long leadup period that saw Brisbane unprepared when severe drought hit and nearly left us without any water.
The average executive was paid $464000 which is a big multiple on the average wage/income/pension received in families in our upper Kedron Brook valley community.
These salaries are in the order of 10 times average incomes of most people in The Grove.