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Backdated pay hikes for officials
Councillors and local government officials will soon be receiving their annual salary increases. This will mean salaries of R429 997 a year for municipal councillors and R881 426 a year for a speaker, reports The Mercury.
This is according to a recommendation by the Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers, published in the Government Gazette last month, of an increase of between 4%and 7% for those earning less than R1 million a year, backdated to 1 July 2013.
According to the newspaper, this would mean that:
- City mayor James Nxumalo’s salary would remain at R1 045 626 a year, while his deputy, Nomvuzo Shabalala, and speaker, Logie Naidoo, would each get a 4% increase that would move them up to R881 426.
- Executive committee members and chief whips would each get R837 972 after a 5% increase and municipal councillors would, after a 7% increase, earn R429 997 a year.
- Provincial executives’ salaries, including that of the premier, would not change as they each earned more than R1 million a year.
- However, those of the deputy chairman of committees, the deputy chief whip of the majority party, the chief whip of the largest minority party and the leader of a minority party would see a 4% increase, which would bring their salaries to R1 039 321.
- Each member of the provincial legislature would get R895 218, while the parliamentary counsellor to the king and the whip would get R924 958 a year.
- Traditional leaders would also be getting increases that would push their remuneration up to R80 875 a year for headmen/headwomen, R192 013 for traditional leaders and R1 017 454 a year for the king.
