A council boss was given a £365,000 payment when he quit a job after a year.
Adam Wilkinson, now chief executive of Derby City Council, received the huge pay out from Kent County Council where he had worked as director of environment and regeneration.
He terminated his £70,000-a-year job after just 12 months and was given the sum - which amounted to nearly £1,000 for every day he worked at the authority.
Mr Wilkinson said he left the Conservative-run council in 2008 because he was returning to West Yorkshire each weekend, where his wife and four daughters lived.
'My family weren't happy and it wasn't working out with the commute,' he said.
'I was living in Maidstone during the week and going back to West Yorkshire at the weekend. It was tiring and stressful.
'The salary was great from the financial perspective and the job was a great challenge, but the work and life balance was not working.
'Kent were very supportive and didn't think it was sustainable. We agreed that departure was best for me and my family. Contractually, Kent had a responsibility to make me a payment.
'What I was entitled to on departure was a proportion of my salary and bonus and that's what I was paid.'
After leaving the council, he set up his own consultancy firm whose services were used by City of York Council, where he took on the role of interim director of neighbourhoods.
Last year he decided to take on the job of chief executive of Derby City Council, employed directly through the authority, for a salary of £160,000.
He said he knew at the time that his payment from Kent County Council could be raised.
'Kent was always being looked at by groups such as the Taxpayers' Alliance because extra payments were typical, so they are subject to a good degree of scrutiny and I appreciated that when I came to Derby.
'I informed the three political leaders of the groups at that time,' said Mr Wilkinson.
'They felt it was a personal and contractual issue between myself and Kent.'
A spokesman for Kent County Council said Mr Wilkinson was not alone in having received such a large pay-out.
'The individuals who received total remuneration over £300,000 received termination payments which appear in the statement of accounts alongside their salaries for the year,' he said.
'It is not unusual for a major employer like Kent County Council, which has a workforce of 44,000, to agree termination payments.'
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