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David Martin Wilson

Clerk
Public Sector Earnings

$1,415,000

3 years of data

Latest Public Sector Pay

$481,000

2024/25 at Clerk of the House of Representatives

Professional Background

Updated 20 Feb 2026

Clerk of the House of Representatives since 2015. Reappointed for a second term in 2022.

David Martin Wilson is the fourteenth and current Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives, appointed on 6 July 2015. He began his parliamentary career in 1994 as a select committee report writer and was appointed as a Parliamentary Officer with the Office of the Clerk in February 1995. He left in 1999 to become a Senior Policy Analyst with the Department for Courts, later working at the Department of Internal Affairs and the Office of Film and Literature Classification. He rejoined the Office of the Clerk in February 2008 as a Clerk-Assistant. From 2012 to 2015, he served as President of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Clerks-at-the-Table. In May 2022, he was reappointed for a further seven-year term beginning 6 July 2022. He is a graduate of the University of Otago.

Education

University of Otago

Qualifications

None listed

Public Sector Roles

2015-07-06Present

Remuneration History

Financial YearAgencyRemunerationPeriodNotes
2024/25Clerk of the House of Representatives$481,000Full YearRemuneration is determined by the Remuneration Authority
2023/24Clerk of the House of Representatives$476,000Full YearRemuneration is determined by the Remuneration Authority
2022/23Clerk of the House of Representatives$458,000Full YearRemuneration determined by the Remuneration Authority

Cross-Sector Roles

Crown Entity Roles (1)

Data Sources