David Drumm, the former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive, was paid over €40,000 a week between the end of bank's financial year up until his resignation from the scandal-ridden bank in mid-December.

According to the Anglo annual report and accounts published on Friday, Drumm, who succeeded Sean FitzPatrick as chief executive five years ago, received total pay of €2.2m for the 12 months to the end of September last.

His pay packet included €1.15m in basic salary and a payment by the bank into his pension of €934,000.

The pay, though it excluded cancelled performance bonuses, was much larger than expected given the scandals facing Anglo.

Based on his 2008 salary, Drumm will have been paid over €450,000 for the 11 weeks since 30 September up until his resignation on 19 December. His pay details will only be accounted in next year's reports and accounts.

In the previous year, Drumm was among the best paid bank executives in Europe for the size of the bank he ran, receiving a total of €4.6m, including €956,000 in basic pay, a performance bonus of €2m and a payment into his pension of €1.65m that year.

Sean FitzPatrick will have earned another €114,000 for the 11 weeks he worked as non-executive chairman of the bank up to his resignation on 18 December.

In the year to the end of September last, FitzPatrick was paid €539,000, representing a 22% pay hike on the €440,000 in fees and benefits he was paid a year earlier.

FitzPatrick resigned on December 18 after acknowledging that he had been loaned at least €87m by the bank and hid the borrowings for eight years from Anglo's external auditors.