The Mayor of Granada earns (receives) 66,300 euros per annum, which is equivalent to 4,735 euros (gross) but times that by 14 not 12, don't forget.
So, how does he fare on the sheckles front compared with other mayors of the other 6,793 municipalities within Spain. In this case he finds himself 71 positions down the list from the top slot.
For instance, the Mayor of Granada rakes in 42,217 less than the Mayor of Madrid and 33,699 euros less than the Mayor of Barcelona, but that’s not surprising as managing a population of 330,000 (Granada) and managing one like that of Madrid or Barcelona (around five million each) calls for a bit of extra dosh .
As far as our green and pleasant province goes, the better paid mayors are the ones down on the Costa Tropical, like Motril and Almuñécar, as well as the large inland towns like Armilla, Guadix or Loja.
Based on the figures provided by the Ministerio de Política Territorial, we can furnish you with the following list of full-time Mayors and a couple of part-time ones. There are some mayors of tiny villages who don’t get a sausage for their efforts and do it out of duty for their fellow villagers… all three and a half of them –just joking
Oh, there are a good deal of municipalities that have not “communicated” the necessary information concerning the mayor’s salary to the said ministry.
Lastly, there should be a corelation between the number of inhabitants that a municipality has and its mayor’s salaries but some mayors appear to have forgotten this.
Full-Time Mayors
Alhama de Granada: 30,100
Almuñécar: 57,776
Cenes de la Vega: 28,823
Dúrcal: 33,000
Guadix: 51,592
Gualchos: 26,490
Íllora: 41,500
Ítrabo: 27,610
Lanjarón: 43,301
Lecrín: 17,573
Loja: 47,431
Molvízar: 4,166
Motril: 58,213
Padul: 39,928
Polopos: 30,309
Salobreña: 38,370
Torrenueva Costa: 31,143
Part-Time Mayors; i.e., they have other employment as well
Capileira: 37,870
Bérchules: 23,848
Malcom: Many (most) voters in Spain apply football-supporter logic to elections; it’s my team and I’ll support them whatever happens. However, this mentality in politics is more prevalent on the right than it is on the left.
The Partido Popular is wracked by systematic corruption yet PP voters will always turn out and support them. Perhaps since the far-right Vox party has emerged, a percentage have moved over to their voting ranks. Of course, until the emergency of a specific far-right party for people of that mindset, all right-wing voters were lumped into the PP. On the left, the vote has always been split between two different parties: centre-left socialists and far-left socialist/communists
Socialists voters, on the other hand, simply stay at home and do not vote when they are disgusted by corruption cases in the PSOE (Andalucía), which is how they lost Andalucía and how Felipe González was ousted after 14 years in continues government.
In the North of England a similar mentality used to exist: “If Labour was good enough for my father, then it’s good enough for me,” and we all know where that led to when Labour was a mere appendage of the TUC.
Coming back to Spain, a very crippling problem with party politics is that elected party members owe their first allegience to their party; not their votes and much less their country.
Whilst I agree with you, it has to be said that we the voters are ultimately responsible for what the politicians get away with. Even more so, the voters who do not vote.
It’s the same everywhere. While it is bad enough in the public sector, there are astounding salaries paid in the private sector by “you scratch my back & I’ll scratch yours” remuneration committees when costs could be reduced for consumers.