Mayor Thorley's salary reaches $123,278 plus plus ...
The annual salaries of the Toowoomba City Council Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Councillors are linked to the salaries of the State MPs. When their pay goes up, so does the pay of the Councillors.
However, given the performance of most of the Toowoomba City Council Councillors over the past year or so, you would be forgiven for thinking no salary increase was warranted.
Excerpt from the Chronicle (annotated):
Mayor's salary reaches the $110,000 mark [actually $123,278 including superannuation contribution]
11 November 2006
Councillors' income based on State levels
Toowoomba's Mayor Dianne Thorley has passed the magical $110,000 mark in annual wages.
In fact she's netted $110,650.03, up from $106,270.00 last year.
Her deputy Joe Ramia received $76,549.76, up from $72,817.94 last year.
All councillors' wages are based on the annual base salary of a State Government backbencher.
The tie to State backbenchers ensures Cr Thorley takes 100% of that pay, her deputy 66.6%, a councillor without a car 55% and a councillor with a car 51%.
The only councillor who isn't driving a council car is Cr Michelle Alroe, while Crs Sue Englart and Keith Beer took on cars part way through the year.
Councillor salaries (source - Toowoomba Chronicle):
Mayor Thorley - $110,650.03
Deputy Mayor Ramia - $76,549.76
Councillor Albion - $56,431.47
Councillor Alroe - $60,857.44
Councillor Barron - $56,431.47
Councillor Beer - $57,963.53
Councillor Englart - $56,771.92
Councillor Schneider - $56,431.47
Councillor Shelton - $56,431.47
[These amounts would exclude superannuation contributions of 12% of base salary. For example, Mayor Thorley's superannuation contribution last year was $12,752.40. The superannuation contribution made on her behalf by the Council this year would have been $13,278. See - 2005 figures.]
Councillor expenses (source - Toowoomba Chronicle):
Mayor Thorley - $22,205.42 (business) and $5,024.28 (telephone)
Deputy Mayor Ramia - $2,997.71 (business) and $2,879.13 (telephone)
Councillor Albion - $6,068.11 (business) and $3893.90 (telephone)
Councillor Alroe - $210.00 (business) and $2,289.96 (telephone)
Councillor Barron - $1,555.76 (business) and $3,275.43 (telephone)
Councillor Beer - $274.50 (business) and $2,897.76 (telephone)
Councillor Englart - $5,757.69 (business) and $3,226.26 (telephone)
Councillor Schneider - $1,043.33 (business) and $3,138.06 (telephone)
Councillor Shelton - $740.15 (business) and $2,727.96 (telephone)
Mayor Thorley's expense claim included 'up to' 10 ministerial visits to Canberra costing from $800 to $2,900 each. There was also the junket to Korea which cost $6,200.
Thorley's 'spend and take' subtotal was $137,879.73 plus superannuation contribution of $13,278 = $151,157.73.
Plus, for Mayor Thorley and Deputy Mayor Ramia, add the cost of a fully maintained car each which is not included in the figures above.
Raises the question, did Toowoomba get good value from the Mayor for their $151,157.73 (plus fully maintained car) last year?
62% of residents would probably say NO ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 6:44 AM
4 Comments:
Thee was the little Xmas jaunt to Canada.
11:49 AM, November 15, 2006
It would be good if the Chronicle would print what the base salary is NOW!!
$118,000.00 for the Mayor.
It's no wonder that she spends so much time in the office because it has all the comforts of home.
I would like to see what the total cost is to the rate payer. Trips to convince the rest of Australia would amount to a tidy sum in the next budget.
She has the hide to say at a conference that she was concerned about "her pensioners" paying more for water, while at the same time she and the others were chewing on prawns and oysters for the Melbourne Cup lunch in the middle of a supposed work day.
While we are talking of work, we should also find out the real hours these councillors do.
It is not a full time job!
People who spend an extraordinary amount of time at the office do not necessarily get the job done and the Mayor is an example of this.
4:41 PM, November 15, 2006
these phone bills would be for mobile phones only. I am sure that they have forgotten who pays the bills.
I wonder what the phone bill is from the land-line at the Councillor's offices and can the people find out what would be personal and what would be business?
10:51 PM, November 15, 2006
Some people shovel horse manure 10 hours a day for about a sixth of that amount and I can tell you one thing for sure they certainly wouldn't want the water sucked out of it so they could drink it.
1:10 AM, November 17, 2006
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