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“From the city’s perspective, we have a pay philosophy,” Totland said in an interview on Thursday. “We want to pay a fair and reasonable wage for our staff. We’re not at the top of the range, we’re not at the bottom of the range.”

Forty-one per cent of members of the $100,000 salary club were police employees; 31 per cent worked for the fire department.

Another 26 per cent were other civic employees. The remaining two per cent worked for independent boards, such as those that oversee the art gallery and SaskTel Centre.

Provincial legislation requires the city to release a full accounting of remuneration to employees as well as other payments made to external parties. A report on 2016 salaries will be considered by city council on Monday.

Totland remained the highest-paid employee at $305,985 in 2016, although his contract includes retention bonuses to be paid at the contract’s end.

His salary was the only one to top $300,000. Nine others earned more than $200,000, including six on the city hall side and three with the police service, the same as in 2015.

Police Chief Clive Weighill ranked second on the 2016 salary list at $266,769. City solicitor Patricia Warwick was the highest paid woman at $219,606.

The number of police employees making more than $100,000 has nearly doubled in the last three years, to 370 in 2016 from 200 in 2014. Fire department salaries dipped and rose over the same three years — 287 made more than $100,000 in 2014, then 219 in 2015 and back up to 286 last year.