Regina City Council will collectively make more money in 2021 after councillors voted in favour of increasing salaries by 26 per cent.“This job would not be feasible or interesting at all with the salary that is on the table currently had I not already had another day job,” said Coun.
Andrew Stevens, who voted in favour of the pay raise.In an 8-3 vote, council voted to increase the mayor’s salary four per cent to $151,015 from $144,832 and councillors’ salary to $57,660 from $45,442.
The salary increase will be phased in over three years starting in January, which will benefit the newly elected council.According to a city report, the new salaries were modelled after salaries of similar-sized cities in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. .