2025/26 Additional subjective analysis - employee pay budgets
The budget assumes that pay will increase by 2% in 2025/26. Approximately 82% of the net revenue budget relates to employee pay costs (£80.675m). The budget allocated to each staff group and details of which personnel sit within each staff group is described below (in £’000’s).
Green book
Green Book - Non-uniformed colleagues ('Green Book' terms and conditions) who are employed in areas such as Human Resources, Information Technology, Property and Facilities, Finance and Procurements.
This staff group also includes non-uniformed Principle Officers.
£22,235,000
Whole-time Other
Whole-time - Other Sections - Uniformed colleagues who are employed in areas such as Resource Planning, Operational Training, Technical Rescueand other areas su ch as Customer and Building Safety.
This staff group also includes uniformed Principle Officers.
£14,881,000
Control Room Staff
Control Room - Uniformed colleagues located at the Police and Fire Control Centre who manage all emergency call handling for the Service.
£2,450,000
On-call Station Staff
On-call stations - Uniformed colleagues who provide front line on-call cover at on-call fire stations. Some budget has been temporarily re-aligned to the Whole-time stations budget for 2024/25 to support appliance availability, whilst the ongoing issues around recruitment and retention at on-call stations continue and longer-term options are explored.
£6,891,000
WT Station Staff
Whole-time stations - Uniformed colleagues ('Grey Book' terms and conditions) who are employed at whole-time and day-crewed fire stations. All whole-time and day-crewed fire stations operate using the flexible self-rostering duty system.
Additional budget is provided for new recruits whilst they are on their initial-training programme. Some budget has been temporarily re-aligned from the on-call budget for 2025/26 to support appliance availability.