{"id":690721,"date":"2026-01-12T08:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690721\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:59:10","slug":"wmca-boss-pay-rise-aims-to-boost-calibre-of-recruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690721\/","title":{"rendered":"WMCA boss pay rise aims to &#8216;boost calibre&#8217; of recruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the 2024-25 unaudited accounts, Shoaf was paid \u00a3207,000 at the time, as well as \u00a320,000 in pension contributions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The WMCA Board is expected to approve the increase on 16 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its report said: &#8220;This approach enables WMCA to maintain parity with peer organisations, attract and retain high calibre leadership talent, and uphold our reputation as a high performing and forward-thinking employer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In an ambitious, trailblazing Combined Authority, where strategic leadership is critical to delivering complex regional priorities, it is essential that our reward framework reflects both market conditions and the value of senior roles.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the 2024-25 unaudited accounts, Shoaf was paid \u00a3207,000 at the time, as well as \u00a320,000 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-690721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115881310572643291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}