The Herald's article about the salary of the Waikato DHB's chief executive suggests that the chief executive's salary increased by $100,000. That never happened.
Unsurprisingly MP Sue Moroney expresses outrage at the suggested 25 per cent salary increase, but unfortunately again that never happened. The chief executive's salary actually increased by a mere 2 per cent, quite reasonable one would have thought.
DHB chief executives' total salaries are very tightly controlled by the State Services Commission.
Each DHB job is 'job sized' and salary must be paid within a tightly defined range set by State Services. Each year salary increases are also tightly controlled and in the year concerned the DHB was not permitted to increase the total salary by more than 2 per cent.