The top paid officers received more than £6.3m, new statistics have revealed.

Figures released in the annual report by the TaxPayers' Alliance - known as the Town Hall Rich List - show Norfolk County Council had the most officers in the county above the £100k threshold in 2023/24.

Tom McCabe, chief executive at Norfolk County Council (Image: Supplied)

Among them was chief executive Tom McCabe, whose £201,800 salary made him the best paid council officer in the county.

In total, County Hall had 31 officers paid at least £100,000.

They included children's services director Sara Tough (£173,500), strategy and transformation director Paul Cracknell (£160,200) and fire chief Ceri Sumner (£150,900).

Norfolk County Council's County Hall headquarters (Image: Mike Page)

Those 31 officers were paid just over £3.8m, at a time when the Conservative-controlled council

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