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Executive Salaries in County Cricket

This post is a follow up to a salary cap for county chief executives which looked at the amounts paid to Key Management Personnel at the first class cricket counties.  I've now updated this for 2018 and 2019

 


  20192018
Derbyshire  164,851156,974
Durham  165,127238,246
Essex  577,723467,881
Glamorgan  558,102423,277
Hampshire  421,499523,405
Kent  554,286492,375
Lancashire  1,448,110950,460
Leicestershire  128,335136,368
Nottinghamshire  511,575477,821
Somerset  142,25397,716
Sussex  610,949545,659
Surrey  1,216,0001,063,000
Warwickshire  772,741629,871
Yorkshire  856,983654,025
   8,128,5346,857,078

Although tempting, it's not really fair to use the table for county by county comparisons as there is no fixed definition of Key Management Personnel.  But year on year comparisons of the total paid to county chief executives and other senior management are more valid and the table shows the amount paid increased by 18% between 2018 & 2019.  Quite a pay rise.

The increase isn't necessarily all down to increased salaries there may be an inflation in the number of KMP as well.  For instance Lancashire opened their hotel in 2019 and presumably that has led to more senior management.  

The question is whether both the level and the rate of increase of KMP salaries are appropriate?  In my opinion the answer is no on both counts.  The rate of increase is particularly concerning. Money flowed into English cricket via The World Cup and home Ashes series in 2019, but that seems to have ratcheted up the amount paid to senior administrators, which might set a new level for other, less prosperous, years.  

I think the answer here is to put a hard limit on the amount any one person can earn working for a county cricket club.  There's room for debate about where that limit should be - around about £200k seems right.  After all a salary cap for players is well established.  

* Four counties not shown, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire claim all their key positions are filled by unpaid committee members, Northants file abbreviated accounts without KMP disclosure and Middlesex can't get anything right

 

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