Met Office bosses are braced for floods of complaints after paying staff £25million in bonuses over the past five years.
And one gripe is set to be why workers should be rewarded with taxpayers’ cash when forecasts are wrong.
This year alone staff each got a £2,726 windfall with just 23 of the 2,127 workers missing out. And £130,000-per-year boss Penny Endersby was paid a bonus of between £5,000 and £10,000 last year, accounts reveal.
John O’Connell, chief of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, blasted “bumper bonuses with no links to performance”. The Met Office, run by the Government, was forced to scrap a forecast accuracy bonus in 2018, which rewarded staff for getting the weather correct.
Its rating on consumer site Trustpilot is 1.3 out of 5.
Its forecasts are regularly panned. One 2009 prediction of a barbecue summer was followed by a washout.
And its latest map makeover is described on Trustpilot as “designed by Liz Truss ”.
A Met Office spokesman said its pay model had been transformed to “enable us to retain and reward a highly skilled and agile workforce”.
