HOBSONS Bay City councillors will join other councils across Victoria to ask for a pay rise.
The State Government is currently reviewing allowances for local government councillors.
Victoria now has a three-tier system of pay based on a council’s population and total revenue.
Hobsons Bay councillors receive a $15,000 taxable allowance, and the mayor a $46,000 one.
The council agreed to make a submission to the Councillor Remuneration Review Panel, which will deliver findings to the State Government by the end of the year. The Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV), which represents the state’s 79 councils, called for allowances to be set as a percentage of the base wage for state parliamentarians, indexed annually.
An MAV survey completed by 470 councillors last year showed more than three-quarters of them undertook other employment, and about two-thirds devoted between 11 and 30 hours a week to elected duties.
