Comment: Higher pay for councillors is in the public interest

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The role of councillors has become increasingly complex in the past 15 years — which is the last time the City of ­Victoria underwent a salary review.

In the past two years, councils across the region have adjusted their remuneration and benefits to keep up with inflation and the realities of working an increasingly complex job.

The change in salary is the result of an external governance review that the city undertook, followed by a third-party remuneration consultant, who found that Victoria has fallen behind on pay when measured against its comparator cities, many of which follow the “half the mayor’s salary” rule, which is what Victoria has adopted.

Our council has now implemented about 95 per cent of the recommendations in the governance review, and the final five per cent is in process.Here is what the governance review had to say about Victoria council being a significant time commitment: In other words, the question of salary is not only a fairness and governance issue, but one that relates directly to service levels and equity considerations.

This cannot be a job solely for people of means, who can manage on reduced wages and insufficient benefits.

 

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