Fraser Coast Regional Council Pay Rates …
… some perspective
So our elected Councillors thought that they were worth a lot of money and so they voted to pay themselves the top pay rate. So what does that mean in terms of the common working man?
Well the base pay for one of our Councillors is $75,940 a year … or $1,460.39 a week … or $36.51 an hour (based on a 40 hour week).
The base pay for our Deputy Mayor is $85,430 a year … or $1,642.89 a week … or $41.07 cents an hour (based on a 40 hour week).
The base pay for our illustrious Mayor is $120,230 a year … or $2,312.12 a week … or $57.80 an hour (based on a 40 hour week).
Now if you were an employer and were asked to pay an employee amounts like that you would expect to get a heck of a lot of productivity from that employee or otherwise you would just be wasting money. If you were purchasing something worth those amounts of money you would hope that you be getting value for the dollars you were spending.
I leave it up to you to decide whether the ratepayers here in Hervey Bay and the rest of the Fraser Coast region are getting value for money - or will ever get any value for money - that we’re paying our Councillors.
