Title: Director General NHS IT
Salary: £270,000 to 285,000
Title: IT Director General, Department for Work and Pensions
Salary: £259,000
Title: CIO and Director General, HM Revenue and Customs
Salary: £240,000 to £245,000
Title: Executive Director, Service Planning and delivery, Identity and Passport Service (IT lead for ID cards and biometric passports)
Salary: About £125,000
Title: Chief Information Officer at the Department for Constitutional Affairs: Salary: £145,000 to £150,000
Title: Head of Strategy and information, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Salary: About £95,000
Title: Director General, Department for Transport (and member of Government CIO Council)
Salary: About £125,000
Title: Head of police IT before Police Information Technology Organisation which has been subsumed into the National Policing Improvement Agency
Salary: £130,000
Title: IT director, Ministry of Justice
Salary: Up to £110,000
Title: Chief Technology Officer, Ofcom [not a civil service organisation]
Approx £230,00
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Comparison table of other top civil servants
Title: Chairman and permanent head of HM Revenue and Customs
Salary: About £165,000 - £170,000
Title: Permanent Secretary, Department for Education and Skills
Salary: About £159,500
Title: Chief Executive of the NHS
Salary: About £225- £230,000
Title: Permanent Under secretary of State, Ministry of Defence
Salary: About £210,000
Title: Chief of the Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence
Salary: About £215,000 - £220,000
Title: Chief Executive Officer of the Identity and Passport Service
Salary: About £175,000- £180,000
Title: Permanent Secretary of Department for Transport
Salary: £175,000
Title: Director General of Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Salary: About £140,000
Title: Director of Public Prosecutions
Salary: £180,000
Title: Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health
Salary: £185,000
Title: Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions
Salary: £208,000
Title: Permanent Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs
Salary: About £160,000
[This list refers generally to Whitehall civil service organisations and excludes (other than Ofcom) the wider public sector such as the BBC, councils, the Royal Mail, Partnership UK, the police, NHS trusts and authorities, Financial Services Authority which are not part of the civil service].
Links:
Three chief information officers get pay packets that are among the biggest in Whitehall
What the top Whitehall chief information officers earned
Whitehall's highest-paid chief information officers - do they earn more than their bosses?
