City of Chateauguay’s elected officials have adopted a bylaw enabling them to draw a higher salary.
The remuneration has been adjusted ‘’according to the medians of the salaries of elected officials of cities of the same size,’’ Chateauguay Mayor Pierre-Paul Routhier let it be known. Not surprisingly, the resolution was unanimously adopted at the council meeting of August 19.
The Chateauguay mayor’s salary will be retroactively increased beginning on January 1, 2019 from $89,823 to $101,825, a hike of about 12%. This salary will be indexed annually at a rate corresponding to the cost of living prices at the consumption (IPC) for the Montreal region. Added to that wil be an expense allowance of a maximum of $16,767, as provided by the Law on the treatment of elected municipal officials. This allowance is newly imposable at the federal level since January, and boosts several municipal officials across Quebec to raise their salary to compensate for loss.
The mayor’s salary does not include the other amounts that he can touch when he sits on committees of other groups, such as the MRCs.
The base salary of municipal councillors, meanwhile, will rise from $22,455 to $26,294, an increase of about 17%. To that is added an allowance for expenses equivalent to half of their salary (about $13,000).
According to the evaluation made by the City of Chateauguay, the median salary for a mayor’s post on the Quebec scale (for cities of the same size) is $107,928. It is $38,137 for a position of councillor (excluding the expense allowance).
