IT IS no surprise that a new mechanism to further increase salaries at the top of City of York Council has been agreed (The Press, August 7).

The report recommending it was written by members of that very same group of overpaid public servants.

The so-called market supplement is nothing of the sort. These ridiculously high salaries at the very top of local government and certain charitable trusts are determined not by genuine market forces but by the members of that elite club who have an inflated opinion of their worth and set the salary scales accordingly. They then peddle a myth that these are comparable with the private sector. They are not.

In the real world people have to actually produce something and, if they do not perform, they are out.

Failure at local authorities is commonplace, but rarely is any high official carrying these ‘‘huge responsibilities’’ ever held to account.

It is high time that this inflated bubble of super salaries was burst.

Matthew Laverack, Lord Mayor’s Walk, York.