DOMINIC Cummings was handed a £50,000 pay bump before being sensationally forced out earlier this year.
New figures show the former No10 aide’s pay jumped from £99,999 to around £145,000 last year.
Labour said Mr Cumming’s “bumper bonus” was an insult to key workers who have been denied a pay rise this year.
Ex-communications chief Lee Cain, who left Downing Street last month with Mr Cummings, was paid between £140,000 and £144,999 – the same as the previous year.
Newly-appointed press secretary Allegra Stratton, who is set to front televised briefings from Downing Street in the new year, earns between £125,000 and £129,999.
Number 10 photographer Andrew Parsons works part-time but earns the full-time equivalent of £100,000-£104,999, the figures show.
Advisers Sir Edward Lister and Munira Mirza both earn between £140,000 and £144,999, while the Prime Minister’s top spin doctor, Jack Doyle, earns between £110,000 and £114,999.
The UK’s chief Brexit negotiator, Lord Frost, earns between £125,000 and £129,999, according to the data.
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner said: “Boris Johnson defended Dominic Cummings when he broke lockdown rules – then awarded him a £50,000 pay rise.
“Yet he’s freezing pay for key workers and refusing to give our care workers a pay rise to the living wage.
“Cummings’ bumper bonus is an insult to key workers denied the pay rise they deserve. It’s another example of how under this Government, it is one rule for the Tory Party and their friends and another for the rest of us.”
It also emerged the PM personally intervened to stop former Special Adviser Sonia Khan getting a payout after being marched out from Downing Street by cops – a case that was later settled out of court – in documents released by the Cabinet Office.
The PM issued an order to not settle the case out of court against the advice of former chief executive of the civil service John Manzoni.
Mr Manzoni wrote to Johnson on 3 March to say that Khan had knocked back an initial settlement offer.
He said: “Given the ongoing expenditure of defending the case and the potential costs that a court may award, it is my advice, taking account of legal and financial analysis that a further negotiation should be carried out to seek to avoid litigation.”
But the Prime Minister wrote a letter back a day later to say that “no further offer should be made to attempt settlement in advance of any potential litigation”.
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