Research into the pay packets of top civil servants has revealed Hammersmith and Fulham Council to have some of the highest-paid senior officers in London.

The council employs six directors who were paid more than £150,000 last year – more than all other boroughs except Wandsworth, which has 10, and Southwark, which has seven.

Chief executive Geoff Alltimes enjoyed a salary and benefits worth £218,830, 11 per cent higher than the average for borough council bosses and greater than the Prime Minister.

Other Hammersmith and Fulham staff paid at least £150,000 - more than cabinet ministers - included Phoenix High School head teacher Sir William Atkinson, finance and corporate services director Jane West, environment director Nigel Pallace, community services director James Reilly and children's services director Andrew Christie.

The figures were compiled by the Green Party using accounts and documents published by each authority, and do not take account of the £260,980 also paid out in consultancy fees to top earner Nick Johnson, the head of the council's scrapped housing wing, H&F Homes.

Mr Johnson took up the highly paid post months after retiring on ill-health grounds as chief executive of Bexley Council in 2007, a decision which reportedly also entitles him to draw a local government pension of £50,000 a year.

He is due to be replaced at the end of March by Mel Barrett, currently regeneration director at Oxford City Council, when the housing management organisation is brought back in-house following the end of the Decent Homes programme. He is also expected to be given a salary of more than £150,000.

Darren Johnson, representing the Green Party at the London Assembly, accused Hammersmith and Fulham and a number of other boroughs of making it hard for members of the public to find information about top rates of pay, which they are legally required to publish.

He said: "We can't expect a proper debate about fair pay while most of our local councils are tucking their dirty laundry away in the murkiest reaches of their web sites. Expecting residents to find and then search through detailed accounts documents isn't good enough.

"When you compare our councils you start to ask questions. Why is one chief executive paid almost twice as much as another? Who do most boroughs only pay one person more than £150,000, but some pay seven or even 10 people more than that?"

A council spokesman said a statement of senior pay is due to be published next week, which will include the salaries of directors and more junior staff.

He added: "We have publicly stated that we intend to save another £570,000 in senior management costs."

Labour leader Stephen Cowan said the high sums paid out to Nick Johnson and Geoff Alltimes made it 'reasonable to wonder who is bearing the brunt of the cuts to services in Hammersmith and Fulham', adding: "It doesn't appear to be our high ranking bureaucrats."

A spokesman for H&F Homes said: "Mr Johnson has delivered the £232 million Decent Homes programme on time and on budget, secured a first class Audit Commission inspection result and raised tenant and leaseholder satisfaction to among the highest in London."