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Mark Rogers, then acting chief executive, saw his salary rise from £112,585 to £119,897, The TaxPayers’ Alliance said.
The group based salaries on midway points as the council would only provide a salary band of £117,397 to £122,397.
Resources director Clive Whereat got a 4.5 per cent rise, from £102,671 to £107,309, it said.
The pressure group said the council ‘refused’ to provide payments to two other members of staff as they contained a redundancy payment.
David Hingley got £88,498 to £88,498 and Richard Honeysett got £77,789 to £82,789.
Both got an ‘unspecified redundancy payment’ and their jobs were not specified.
Community services director Jeanette McGarry got £100,599, the group’s report said.
The metropolitan council with the highest number of earners over £100,000 was Liverpool City Council with 34.
This included a general manager of an ‘artistic programme’ and a ‘creative communities manager’ on £102,500.
Overall, the total number of managers earning more than £100,000 rose by 14 per cent compared to the previous year. The 2009/10 financial year drew to a close yesterday.
Of these, 31 earned more than the Prime Minister, a 67 per cent increase on the previous year.
The average was £125,745.
Solihull council staff are not getting an increase in the new financial year and bosses have been urged not to raise councillors’ pay.
John O'Connell, policy analyst at the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: “Town Hall bosses have had a very good recession at taxpayers' expense.
“More of them than ever are earning massive amounts, and they even enjoyed a healthy pay rise while everyone else was suffering pay freezes, cuts or redundancies.
“It is unfair that these public servants have been having a whale of a time while the ordinary taxpayers who fund their generous deals have been struggling to survive the recession.
“Now that most councils are in financial trouble, these senior managers must take serious pay cuts to help make ends meet."
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