"On Thursday evening, Shelley Carroll urged her colleagues to “be brave” and vote “to go right on chronically underpaying yourselves” — only now, they’ll be underpaid at just $170,588.60 a year.
“These are hard times, these are desperately hard times, and we need the best in the city to want to join us in this chamber,” an emotional Carroll said before councillors voted 15-8 to lift their salaries from $137,537." https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/be-brave-toronto-councillors-give-themselves-gigantic-raises
A lot of people would be happy if they got a 5% pay increase, a 10% increase above the past year would be amazing. However, the hard done by city councilors might be able to scrape by with a 24% increase. A pretax monthly income of $14,215 is pretty good pay, if you can get that, but many people don't.
