TEN mayors running some of Perth’s biggest councils share the title of best paid mayor after suspended City of Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi had her pay slashed.

The mayors of Armadale, Joondalup, Swan, Cockburn, Belmont, Melville, Kwinana, Stirling, Wanneroo and Fremantle receive $135,910, the maximum remuneration allowable.

That is $47,045 less than Ms Scaffidi was previously in line to receive but $95,310 more than the lowest-paid metropolitan mayor, East Fremantle’s Jim O’Neill.

The figures represent only the mayor’s sitting fees and annual allowance and not additional allowances, such as up to $3500 for information technology, and travel expenses.

Mayors who sit on regional councils may receive additional fees and be in line for extra expenses.

The Salaries and Allowances Tribunal sets the maximum and minimum amount that council mayors can be paid depending on which “band” councils fall into. The biggest councils are in band one.

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The tribunal this month decided elected members and chief executives would not receive a pay increase for the coming year, citing tough economic times.

A mayor who presides over a band one council can get an allowance of between $50,750 and $88,864 and either annual attendance fees of $24,360-$47,046 or individual attendance fees of $609-$1177 per meeting.

The capital city council is an exception, where the lord mayor is entitled to receive an allowance of $60,900 to $135,909. The commissioners running Perth council last week voted to cut Ms Scaffidi’s allowance from the maximum to the minimum while she is suspended after legal advice suggested they did not have the right to axe it entirely.

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For the mayor of a band two council the allowance falls to $15,225-$62,727, annual attendance fees to $14,719-$30,841 and per meeting fees to $369-$772.

Those amounts fall further for band three and band four councils.