Brexit Outrage: Civil Servants receive huge bonuses before EU exit is delivered

The details of performance-related pay in the year ending March 2018, shows 12 senior staff were paid £172,000 (averaging just over £14,000 per person). According to The Metro, the end of year payments totalled £142,000 with the median figure being £13,750. Junior staff got a total of £844,780 in bonuses.

End of year payments worth £561,650 (an average of just over £1,320 per person) were given to 425 people.

Additionally, 384 members of staff received in year payments, with the maximum being £1,000.

Data from the Department for Exiting the Union said that in March 2018, it employed 636 people in full-time positions with the average monthly wage being £5890.

Since the period covered in the figures has ended the department has had three different secretaries: David Davis, Dominic Raab and Stephen Barclay.

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Staff were pooled together from other departments, such as the Cabinet Office’s Europe Unit, the Europe Directorate of the Foreign Office and the UK’s Permanent Representative to the EU.

According to the Institute for Government, the median earnings for the various government departments is higher in Education, Health, Transport, Business, Energy and International Development.

A Civil Service People Survey for 2018 found just under 35 percent of staff said they were satisfied with pay and benefits, ranking it 8th in this regard.

A department spokesman said of the findings on bonuses: “It has been common practice for government departments to link individuals’ performance to their pay.”