The list, based on salaries from 2024-25, looked at staff rather than elected councillors, with the highest earner being chief executive Kate Kennally, who earned £201,661.
Across the South West, employees paid over £100,000 rose from 280 in 2023-24 to 299 in 2024-25, according to the TaxPayers Alliance.
Nationally, a record 4,733 council employees received more than £100,000 in 2024-25, the 20th edition of the TaxPayers’ Alliance Rich List shows.
The number of staff receiving over £150,000 had also hit a record high of 1,255, it said.
Alliance chief executive John O’Connell said: “Taxpayers are caught in a pincer movement with a record-breaking tax burden on one side and a bloated public sector feathering its nest on the other.”
