Council managers have high salaries What a revelation (Echo, February 24) that so many Dorset County Council staff are earning such incredibly high salaries.

When the average full-time salary in this part of Dorset is at best around the £20,000/£22,000 mark, surely those DCC people on salaries of £50,000 right up to £147,000 are inhabiting another planet?

Of the 30 gravy train passengers which you featured I would question, too, whether some of those jobs are really necessary anyway.

Ron Kirby Dorchester