11 September 2020
G A Findlay
[FYI request #13566 email]
Dear G A Findlay
Official Information Act request – salary details for NZIST Chief Executive and Deputy
Chief Executives
Thank you for your email sent on Saturday 24 August 2020 requesting the following information
under the Official Information Act 1982 (the OIA):
Please supply details of the salaries paid to the Chief Executive, and the six Deputy Chief
Executives. As is usual in the public service I would expect these to be given in bands.
The salary details for the Chief Executive are publicly available. However, to save you
searching, I can advise the Chief Executive's salary is $675,000.
NZIST was established on 1 April 2020 and has not yet confirmed salary bands for senior
leadership roles. This work will be progressed once NZIST has recruited specialist Human
Resource staff. To ensure the DCE roles were appropriately sized and remunerated, NZIST
engaged Korn Ferry to conduct an independent job size of the six roles. This work compared
position descriptions against public and private sector market data to develop salary ranges.
While I am withholding the specific salary details of the recently recruited Deputy Chief
Executives under section 9(2)(a) of the OIA to protect the privacy of natural persons, I can
advise you that the salary range for the six DCE roles is $253,249 - $392,214.
Under section 28(3) of the OIA, you have the right to make a complaint to the Ombudsman if
you are not happy with this response. Information about how to do this is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by calling 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Stephen Town
Chief Executive
[email address]
PO Box 19400 l Hamilton 3244
Level 1, Wintec House l Cnr Anglesea & Nisbet Streets l Hamilton 3204