× BARNSLEY Council’s nine highest-earning employees cost more than £1.1m in wages and pensions, new figures released this week have revealed. The Taxpayers’ Alliance’s ‘Town Hall Rich List’ identified Barnsley Council as having nine staff members breaching the £100,000-a-year bracket in 2019/20. Top earner was the now-retired executive director for people, Rachel Dickinson, whose total package of £164,000 included a salary of £143,000 and a £21,000 pension top-up. Chief executive Sarah Norman’s salary of £128,000 was also added to with £5,000 in expenses and a £19,000 pension - considerably less than former boss Diana Terris, whose final year in the post yielded a £159,000 salary and an £89,000 pension.