TOP jobs at Cheltenham Borough Council will go as the authority looks to save £200,000 from its senior management wage bill.
There are currently nine posts at the council with salaries of £50,000 or more, two of which are shared with other councils.
But the council has said it wants to save £100,000 in 2014, £50,000 in 2015 and a further £50,000 in 2016 by making changes to its management team.
The exact details of the shake-up are not yet available but the council's chief executive has confirmed the number of posts in the upper echelon will be reduced.
Currently the nine members of staff at the top would earn £570,000 between them if they were paid at the bottom of the pay scales.
However, if all were receiving the maximum amount they are eligible for, that bill could be as high as £689,991.
Chief executive Andrew North is the only member of staff at the council with a salary of more than £100,000.
The council shares the cost of the director in charge of Ubico, the waste collector, with its neighbour in the Cotswolds while the cost of another director is shared between a number of authorities as part of the Go partnership of shared services.
Mr North said: "There will be a reduction in the number of posts at the senior level and that is pretty certain and that is because of the overheads.
"I have always been of the view that whenever we have to look at further cuts in the budget, and we are expecting a very serious level of cuts next year, we do have to look at our overheads and that includes senior management.
"I am currently formulating some proposals which will go to council in July.
"I am preparing a report into what the council might look like in terms of structure, but the actual details of posts won't be in that report.
"The effect on individual staff will be detailed after that."
He said any changes would come about in an "evolutionary way", in consultation with councillors.
The savings have been highlighted in red by the authority, which uses a traffic light system to denote how tough a saving could be to achieve.
But Mr North believed the £200,000 figure was "perfectly achievable".
"The fact that it is red is because I have not completed the work and council has not considered my recommendations," he added. "All of that has to be done before we can say it is achievable."
