What is my mayor’s salary? Carmena and Colau earned more than the Prime Minister

How much does my mayor charge? The mayor Manuela Carmena it was the best paid again, followed by Barcelona Ada Colau. The first mayor of Madrid received 103,667 euros per year and that of Barcelona 99,999. Pedro Sánchez will receive this year 82,978.56 euros, after applying the salary increase for officials. That is, both charged more than the Prime Minister, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Finance.

You can consult in the attached graph the salary of the 250 main municipalities where the main high positions of the consistories of Spain charge the most:

Mayors of Bilbao and Valencia They are the next best paid after Madrid and Barcelona, ​​with salaries amounting to 92,911 and 85,602 euros. At the other extreme are Colunga (Asturias), Marchamalo (Guadalajara) and San Martín and Mudrián (Segovia), which also claim to have exclusive dedication but charge, each, 6,059, 4,623 and 929 euros per year, reports Europa Press.

Of the total for the country, 2,620 mayors say they do not receive any remuneration For their work and of those who do declare to have municipal income, 1,515 claim to dedicate themselves exclusively to the city council.

Opacity in 1,100 municipalities

On the other hand, more than a thousand municipalities do not communicate to the Treasury the salaries of their mayors and councilors. They are specifically 1,158 municipalities those who, according to the department headed by María Jesús Montero, have not reported this year on the remuneration received by the members of the municipal corporation despite the fact that it is required by Order HAP / 2105/2012, of October 1, which develops the obligations to supply information provided for in Organic Law 2/2012, of April 27, on Stability Budgetary and Financial Sustainability.

In fact, there are eight municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants that have not sent their data to the Ministry within the established period: specifically, Granada, with a population of 235,800 people, Jerez de la Frontera (212,876), Sabadell (207,814), Leganés (186,907), Getafe (174,921), Tarragona (131,255), Ourense (106,231) and Telde (102,078).

The mayor of Sierra (Cáceres) declares to have received one euro

Of the 4,063 municipalities that have reported to the Ministry, only 1,515 have full-time mayors and the rest either have partial or no dedication. In addition, 1,900 mayors earn less than 20,000 euros a year, a round figure that the councilors of Vegaquemada (León) and San Pedro del Arroyo (Ávila) enter, according to this 2018 report.

The lowest part of the table is made up of small towns with non-dedicated mayors (almost all) and very low incomes. Below a thousand euros there are 450 towns and in the last positions are municipalities with income of 50 euros such as Villalar de los Comuneros (Valladolid) or 30 euros such as Justel (Zamora). The relationship is closed by the mayor of Villanueva de la Sierra (Cáceres), without dedication to the mayor’s office, who entered 1 euro last year.

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