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Mayor Naheed Nenshi has long thought his salary is too high and he’s “totally fine” with a citizen committee’s recommendation that whoever wins the mayor’s seat this fall take a six per cent pay cut.

On Monday, council is set to debate chopping the mayor’s salary from $212,870 to $200,747 effective after the election— one of five recommendations from a group of volunteers that spent six months reviewing council pay.

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Nenshi told reporters Thursday he donates 10 per cent of his salary to charity every year because he thinks he’s paid too much.

“I’ve been saying for some years that the previous citizen committee, I thought, had pegged the mayor salary a bit too high,” he said.

“But, I also wanted to respect that it’s a volunteer committee and councillors shouldn’t set their own salaries up or down, which is why every year, I’ve donated a big percentage of my salary to charity because I did think it was too high.”