Councillors in Bristol are set to receive a four per cent pay rise this financial year, backdated to last April. The pay rise is expected to cost Bristol City Council about an extra £60,000.
Councillors are not paid a normal salary for their work but a basic allowance of £14,580 a year, and this will now increase to £15,169. Some councillors are paid extra, like political group leaders or the chairs of scrutiny commissions.
The 4.04 per cent pay rise was revealed in papers going to a full council meeting on Tuesday, January 10. The increase is much less than the current rate of inflation, which is 10.7 per cent according to the Bank of England.
