How much Shropshire's road team gets paid - plus where council's pothole repair vehicles are visiting next
Shropshire Council also confirmed its pothole repair budget for the 2026/27 financial year
Shropshire Council is paying well over £1 million to staff to maintain the county's roads.
In a Freedom of Information request submitted by Nigel Cook, the local authority was asked to confirm its total salary, including pensions, for all staff reporting to the director of roads.
In response the council said the total salary, National Insurance and pension budget for highways operations for 2026/27 is £1,383,240.
The council also confirmed its pothole repair budget for the 2026/27 financial year.
A total of £325,820 has been set aside from the organisation's revenue budget. This, the council said, is for urgent safety repairs to the road surface, often of a temporary nature.
It excludes other infrastructure maintenance expenditure, such as footpaths, cycleways, barriers, signs, signals, vegetation, and severe weather events.
Meanwhile, £10,700,000 has been set aside in the council's capital budget.
"As the figures indicate, there has been a conscious effort to implement permanent works," said a Shropshire Council spokesperson.
The council has also confirmed which roads will be tackled by its road planer machines in the coming weeks.
The Multevo Multihog vehicles planes off the road surface to enable a squared-off hole to be filled by a following gang.
This, the council said, is quicker than having to saw-cut and break out the defective road by hand.
Next month, the Multihogs and their crews will treat the following roads:
Multihog 1
- Monday, August 10: Two Gates junction to Broughton Farm junction, Claverley
- Friday, August 14: Draycott, Claverley
- Wednesday, August 19: A454 from junction east of Swancote to Wyken Crossroads, Bridgnorth
- Thursday, August 27: Stanley Lane, Shrewsbury
Multihog 2
- Tuesday, August 4: Junction with B5009 to Iron Mills junction, Gobowen (section 3)
- Monday, August 17: Dark Lane, Broseley
- Friday, August 21: Lower Cross Lanes crossroads to Church junction, Heath
Work will be carried out on weekdays only, between 9.30am and 4pm.
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