He is among nine senior executives at the ODA who earn more than the Prime Minister David Cameron's annual salary of £142,500 ($216,335) with a further four at the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC).

The figures, which include taxable benefits and allowances, have emerged as part of pay packages for every employee of non-departmental public bodies earning over £150,000 ($228,000) were put online today by the Cabinet Office as part of a new Government transparency drive.

The high number of £200,000 ($304,000)-plus packages among executives working onthe London 2012 Olympics stood out on the Cabinet Office list.

Others listed at the ODA were Howard Shiplee, director of construction, who earns up to £289,999 ($440,259); Dennis Hone, director of finance and corporate services up to £269.999 ($409,897); John Armitt, chairman, up to £254,999 ($387,595); Simon Wright, director of infrastructure and utilities, up to £229,999 ($349,595); Alison Nimmo, director of design and regeneration, up to £229,999 ($349,595); Hugh Sumner, director of transport, up to £229,999 ($3495,595); Ralph Luck, director of property, up to £209,999 ($319,195).

The Olympic Delivery Authority’s director of communications Godric Smith who was Tony Blair's spokesman when he was Prime Minister, is the highest paid communications professional working at a quango, earning between £195,000 ($296,398) and £199,999 ($303,996).

Andrew Altman (pictured), the American brought in to oversee the development of the Olympic Park after it has staged the Games in 2012, earns up to £200,000 ($304,000) as chief executive of the OPLC.

There other senior employees at the OPLC also earn more than Cameron.

They are Malcolm Ross, the executive director of operations and venues, who earns up to £189,000 ($287,278); Karen Webb, the executive director of communications and marketing, up to £174,999 ($265,996), which includes a £20,000 ($30,400) market supplement; and Jonathan Dutton, the executive director of finance and corporate services, up to £154,999 ($235,596).

Other civil servants connected with the Government whose salaries are revealed include Jeremy Beeston, the director general for the Government Olympic Executive (GOE) at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), who earns up to £229,999 (349,595) and David Goldstone, director of finance and programme at the GOE, up to £189,999 ($288,796).

The figures also revealed that Jennie Price earns up to £164,999 ($250,796) as chief executive of Sport England and Rona Chester up to £154,999 ($235,596) as chief operating officer at an organisation that has been regularly heavily criticised for failing to fulfil its Government mandate of getting more people invovled in sport.

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude, who also chairs the new Public Sector Transparency Board, said: "Yet again we have shown we are absolutely committed to acting quickly on pledges in our Coalition Agreement to release information that will allow everyone to hold their politicians and public bodies to account.

"The release, along with previous publications listing high-earning civil servants and salaries of special advisers, shows that transparency is fast becoming an integral part of everything we do."

The salaries for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), including chairman Sebastian Coe and Paul Deighton, are not revealed among the new figures.

LOCOG is a privately-funded organisation who are raising the money to stage the Olympics and Paralympics via sponsorship, ticket sales and merchandising.

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