Merton’s traffic wardens are potentially earning as much as £50,000 a year.
Ben Penty
Merton’s traffic wardens are potentially earning as much as £50,000 a year.
The massive amount of overtime that London traffic wardens have the opportunity to work means some have been earning more than soldiers, nurses and firemen.
Tower Hamlets Council were recently at the centre of a News of the World investigation which found two traffic wardens had been paid £52,786 and £44,319 respectively.
Emma Boon of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “The public will be disgusted that a traffic warden could rake in so much cash.
“It is wrong that fines have become a money-spinner for some councils and clearly some wardens too.”
Firemen can currently expect to earn around £30,000 with nurses who have completed their training receiving a similar figure.
Soldiers’ pay can start as low as around £14,000, a figure dwarfed by many traffic wardens earnings.
A Merton traffic warden, who did not wish to be named, hit back at the claims believing them to be a gross overreaction.
“We are in one of the most hated professions,” she said.
“There are people getting paid a lot more money in London.”
