Perth's Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi, in her office at Council House November 2, 2012, wants an increase in her $60,000 a year salary. Source: News Limited
PERTH Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi says she is severely underpaid and deserves a 200 percent pay rise.
She and WA Local Government Association president Troy Pickard have joined forces to urge the Salaries and Allowances Tribunal to increase the wages of the state's mayors and 1249 councillors.
Ms Scaffidi said her $60,000 salary should be increased to match the six-figure income of mayors in other states. She said the mayors of Melbourne and Sydney earned up to $180,000.
"The lord mayoral position given it's more than a full-time requirement to undertake the role professionally and to meet all the needs of this position ... should be treated similarly to the salaried levels of lord mayors of Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney," Ms Scaffidi told The Sunday Times.
She said being mayor required someone with the "ability to lobby for significant infrastructure funding at a national and state level" and "cultivate and develop the high-level relationships that bring appropriate investments into our city".
Mr Pickard also said the state's local government representatives were short-changed compared with their eastern states counterparts.
WA councillors were paid a paltry $7000 a year, with some earning only $2400. Their colleagues in other states can receive up to $126,000 a year.
"While I expect the initial reaction from some in the community would be to oppose any increase for elected members, I believe if they thought it through they would agree that it is not fair that WA lags behind other states and that people deserve to be appropriately paid for the work they undertake," Mr Pickard said.
He said serving on a local council required a "significant time commitment" and involved an increasingly complex role that was "way in excess of attending meetings". "But it is true that not all councils have the same demands or same levels of decision making and that is why WALGA has suggested the inclusion of a specific system of bands," he said.
The SAT will set new pay structures for councillors and mayors that will take effect from July 1.
A spokesman for the tribunal said it had been eight years since fees, expenses and allowances paid to mayors and councillors had been adjusted. He said though the SAT would review pays and set new minimum and maximum rates for mayors and councillors, the exact amount paid to elected representatives would still be decided by the councils.
In WALGA's submission to the SAT review, the association argues that the salary of the Lord Mayor of capital cities such as Ms Scaffidi should receive special consideration to recognise the importance of the role.
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