Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 1 December 2009
226 Deputy George Lee asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the average wage and number of staff employed by his Department each year from 1997 to 2008 broken down by job title and grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43936/09]
View answerThe information sought by the Deputy is not available for the period prior to the inauguration of the Corepay system in 2002 and the average salary figures for the period prior to 2008 is not readily available. However, work on compiling the average salary figures by grade for the years 2002-2007 is under way and I will be happy to provide the Deputy with this information before the end of next week. I have included in tabular form a breakdown of the numbers of posts in my Department for each of the years from 2002 to 2008.
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
|
1,091 |
1,177 |
1,127 |
1,081 |
1,130 |
1,214 |
1,257 |
The following table sets out the number of staff on the Department's payroll, excluding those who are locally recruited abroad, broken down by grade and the average salary paid for each grade in December 2008:
|
Grade |
Number |
Annual Average Salary |
|
€ |
||
|
Secretary General |
1 |
253,635 |
|
Second Secretary |
4 |
221,929 |
|
Deputy Secretary |
5 |
177,547 |
|
Assistant Secretary |
42 |
148,398 |
|
Principal Development Specialist |
1 |
114,285 |
|
Counsellor/Principal Officer |
102 |
101,226 |
|
Senior Development Specialist |
14 |
96,588 |
|
Accountants |
6 |
46,058 |
|
Assistant Principal/First Secretary/Assistant Legal Advisers/Translator |
195 |
77,674 |
|
Development Specialist |
22 |
76,661 |
|
Higher Executive Officer/Third Secretary/Administrative Officer/Librarian |
193 |
52,601 |
|
Executive Officer |
126 |
40,533 |
|
Staff Officer |
45 |
39,513 |
|
Clerical Officer |
529 |
29,824 |
|
Cleaners/Services Officer/Services Attendant/Nightwatchpersons (NWP) |
47 |
25,496 |
|
*1,332 |
*The total number of staff broken down by grade is the number of actual staff working in the Department, including worksharing staff.
