David Miliband branded “shameful” after eye-watering salary in charity position revealed to be nearly £850,000

DAVID Miliband has been branded “shameful” by Brits after his eye-watering salary in his position at a charity has been revealed to be nearly £850,000.

The 58-year-old retired from politics in 2013, following which he became the president and CEO of global humanitarian aid, relief and development organisation the International Rescue Committee (IRC).

There, London-born Miliband, who has since overseen humanitarian aid and development programs in 40 countries, was initially receiving an annual renumeration of £300,000.

However, the former Labour MP’s latest annual salary of a whopping £849,544 has since surfaced on social media, where Brits panned Miliband’s take-home as “obscene”.

The former Foreign Secretary’s salary sees him earn over five times more than current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose comparatively meagre salary is approximately £168,000 a year.

A breakdown of Miliband’s salary sees the former MP for South Shields earn approximately £3,267 a day or £16,337 a week, meaning his monthly payslips total a staggering £70,795.

After eagle-eyes Brits found the eye-watering figures, the salary was shared to social media yesterday where Miliband was branded a “hypocrite” and a “scammer”.

A post sharing a snap of his salary breakdown reads: “This is an obscene salary to take from a charity.”

The post has since received over 4,700 likes and more than 870 comments from social media users quick to vent their frustrations at the former Environment Secretary.

One user said: “How can one human in a charity command that kind of money. It is theft from the donor base.”

Another added: “I guess it’s on par with what these champagne socialists expect but it’s shameful nonetheless.”

A third replied: “And he is asking government to send money via his charity for Gaza. For f***’s sake. They are all scammers.”

Another claimed: “David Miliband is a shameless, sanctimonious hypocrite. You couldn’t pierce his skin with an elephant gun.”

A fifth wrote: “No wonder he’s not interested in coming back here. This is the reason I have stopped donating to charities, especially [Royal National Lifeboat Institution] taxing services.

Another commented: “Every ‘charity’ is the same with the obscene board level salaries.”