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Senior Civil Service pay: March 2019

Published: 5 March 2024
Part of: Public sector

Names and salary details of members of the Senior Civil Service within the Scottish Government.

Senior Civil Service pay

Details of senior staff, showing names, job title and salary for members of the Senior Civil Service (SCS) at director level and above. The data shown is at 31 March 2019.

Pay for the SCS is reserved to the UK Government.

First Name	Surname	Grade	Director-General	FTE	Job Title	Salary range £
Leslie	Evans	Permanent Secretary	PSEC	1	Permanent Secretary	165,000 - 169,999
Sarah	Davidson	Director General	DG Corporate	1	Director General, Corporate	120,000 - 124,999
Liz	Ditchburn	Director General	DG Economy	1	Director General, Economy	115,000 - 119,999
Paul	Johnston	Director General	DG Education and Justice	1	Director General, Communities	115,000 - 119,999
Paul	Gray	Director General	DG Health and Social Care	1	Director General, Health & Social Care	145,000 - 149,999
Alyson	Stafford	Director General	DG Scottish Exchequer	1	Director General, Scottish Exchequer	140,000 - 144,999
Ken	Thomson	Director General	DG Strategy and External Affairs	1	Director General, Constitution And External Affairs	120,000 - 124,999
Stephen	Gallagher	Director	DG Communities	1	Director for Vaccine Strategy & Policy	95,000 - 99,999
Stephen	Kerr	Director	DG Communities	1	Director of Social Security	90,000 - 94,999
Gordon	Wales	Director	DG Corporate	1	Chief Financial officer	105,000 - 109,999
Lesley	Fraser	Director	DG Corporate	1	Director General Corporate	95,000 - 99,999
Barbara	Allison	Director	DG Corporate	1	Director of Communications & Ministerial Support	95,000 - 99,999
Colin	Cook	Director	DG Corporate	1	Director of Economic Development	90,000 - 94,999
Kenneth	Hogg	Director	DG Corporate	1	Director of Organisational Continuity	95,000 - 99,999
Nicola	Richards	Director	DG Corporate	1	Director of People Directorate	90,000 - 94,999
Ainslie	McLaughlin	Director	DG Corporate	1	Director of Procurement And Commercial	95,000 - 99,999
Gary	Gillespie	Director	DG Economy	1	Chief Economist	95,000 - 99,999
Jonathan	Pryce	Director	DG Economy	1	Director for Culture, Tourism And Major Events	95,000 - 99,999
Dominic	Munro	Director	DG Economy	1	Director for Strategy	90,000 - 94,999
Mary	McAllan	Director	DG Economy	1	Director of Covid Recovery And Public Service Reform	95,000 - 99,999
Kevin	Quinlan	Director	DG Economy	1	Director of Environment & forestry	90,000 - 94,999
David	Wilson	Director	DG Economy	1	Director of Scottish National Investment Bank	105,000 - 109,999
Joe	Griffin	Director	DG Education and Justice	1	Director for Early Learning and Childcare	90,000 - 94,999
Aileen	McKechnie	Director	DG Education and Justice	1	Director of Advanced Learning And Science	95,000 - 99,999
Michael	Chalmers	Director	DG Education and Justice	1	Director of Children And Families	95,000 - 99,999
Gillian	Russell	Director	DG Education and Justice	1	Director of Health Workforce	95,000 - 99,999
Neil	Rennick	Director	DG Education and Justice	1	Director of Justice	95,000 - 99,999
Fiona	Robertson	Director	DG Education and Justice	1	Director of Learning	95,000 - 99,999
Donna	Bell	Director	DG Health and Social Care	1	Director of Social Care & Ncs Development	90,000 - 94,999
Richard	Foggo	Director	DG Health and Social Care	1	Interim Director of Population Health	90,000 - 94,999
Bridget	Campbell	Director	DG Net Zero	1	Director for Environment and Forestry	95,000 - 99,999
Kersti	Berge	Director	DG Net Zero	1	Director of Energy And Climate Change	105,000 - 109,999
Graham	Black	Director	DG Net Zero	1	Director of Marine Scotland	100,000 - 104,999
Sharon	Fairweather	Director	DG Scottish Exchequer	0.8	Director of Internal Audit And Assurance	95,000 - 99,999
Eleanor	Ryan	Director	DG Scottish Exchequer	1	Director for Budget And Sustainability	95,000 - 99,999
Jennie	Barugh	Director	DG Scottish Exchequer	1	Director of Fiscal Sustainability And Exchequer Development	90,000 - 94,999
Willie	Ferrie	Director	DG Strategy and External Affairs	0.8	Parliamentary Counsel	95,000 - 99,999
Andy	Beattie	Director	DG Strategy and External Affairs	1	Chief Parliamentary Counsel	100,000 - 104,999
Michael	Neilson	Director	DG Strategy and External Affairs	1	Director Brussels	115,000 - 119,999
David	Rogers	Director	DG Strategy and External Affairs	1	Director of Constitution And Cabinet	95,000 - 99,999
Andrew	Scott	Director	DG Strategy and External Affairs	1	Director of Tax And Revenues	95,000 - 99,999
Madeleine	MacKenzie	Director	DG Strategy and External Affairs	1	Parliamentary Counsel	95,000 - 99,999
n/a [1]		Deputy Director	DG Health and Social Care	1	Paid outward secondment to Edinburgh University	105,000 - 109,999

Note: In line with Cabinet Office guidance, as set out in the Government Financial Reporting Manual, we apply the normal convention for reporting the personal salary information of officials by providing the information in £5k salary bands.

[1] In line with Cabinet Office guidance, names of staff below SCS2 are not published.

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