More than 1,000 of Sadiq Khan's City Hall staff are on a salary of £100,000 or above, figures reveal

Sadiq Khan was accused of betraying London taxpayers after figures revealed City Hall employs 1,100 people on a salary of £100,000 or above.

City Hall and its subsidiaries, including Transport for London (TfL) and the Metropolitan Police, are funded through the mayoral precept, which has risen from an average of £276 in 2016-17 to £471 next year.

Meanwhile the number of six-figure earners is up from 655 in 2018-19 to 1,146 last year, with 772 of them working for TfL alone. The transport body also had 18 employees on over £250,000.

Susan Hall, Conservative mayoral candidate, said: ‘Under Sadiq Khan, City Hall has turned into one big gravy train, with hundreds of staff receiving salaries greater than the top four per cent earners in the country. Many of the staff directly responsible for bringing in the Ulez expansion are earning over £100,000, paid for by the poorest Londoners through his £12.50 daily tax.’

Despite the capital’s knife crime problems, the number of employees receiving over £100,000 in the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, which includes the Met Police, has risen from 80 to 301 over the past five years. The mayor himself received £171,587 in 2022-23, up £21,000 compared with four years earlier.

Sadiq Khan has been accused of betraying London taxpayers after figures revealed 1,100 City Hall employees earn £100,000 or more

Elliot Keck, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘City Hall is bursting at the seams with the growing number of officials bringing home the big bucks’

Next month Londoners are braced for a 4.99 per cent council tax increase, with more in boroughs such as Croydon.

Elliot Keck, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘City Hall is bursting at the seams with the growing number of officials bringing home the big bucks. Sadiq Khan should give taxpayers a break and keep a lid on these senior salaries.’

A spokesman said the mayor offered ‘competitive salaries to attract the staff needed to help deliver on the issues that matter most to Londoners’.