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Table 4: Analysis of Mayor and Council Member Salaries (including Maplewood, MN) <br /> <br />Often when analyzing data, outliers can cause data to become skewed. Therefore, staff provided an <br />analysis without Maplewood, as the data was significantly higher than other communities. Table 5 <br />provides a similar analysis, as shown in Table 4, excluding Maplewood. MN. <br /> <br /> Table 5: Analysis of Mayor and Council Member Salaries (excluding Maplewood, MN) <br />Little Canada <br />Mayor Salary <br />Mayor <br />Actual <br />Salary <br />Market <br />Minimum <br />LC Actual <br />(+/-) <br />market <br />minimum <br />actual <br />Mayor <br />Actual <br />Salary <br />Market <br />Average <br />LC Actual <br />(+/-) <br />market <br />average <br />actual <br />Mayor <br />Actual <br />Salary <br />Market <br />Maximum <br />LC Actual <br />(+/-) market <br />average <br />maximum <br />$6,700.00 $5,700.00 14.93%↓ $7,459.00 11.33%↑ $10,440.00 55.82%↑ <br /> <br />Little Canada <br />Council <br />Member <br />Salary <br />Council <br />Member <br />Actual <br />Salary <br />Market <br />Minimum <br />LC Actual <br />(+/-) <br />market <br />minimum <br />actual <br />Council <br />Member <br />Actual <br />Salary <br />Market <br />Average) <br />LC Actual <br />(+/-) <br />market <br />average <br />actual <br />Council <br />Member <br />Actual <br />Salary <br />Market <br />Maximum <br />LC Actual <br />(+/-) market <br />average <br />maximum <br />$5,850.00 $4,200.00 28.21%↓ $5,968.20 2.02%↑ $7,752.00 32.51%↑ <br /> <br />In analyzing the market comparison and spread between positions (the data including Maplewood, MN), <br />staff recommends three options for consideration. <br /> <br />• Option 1: No change <br /> <br />• Option 2: Increasing the Mayor's salary to $7,500.00 ($800 increase) and the Council Member's <br />Salary ($150 increase) to $6,000.00. This brings both positions slightly ahead of the market <br />average (if using 2024 data): 0.55% ahead of the market average for the Mayor and 0.53% ahead <br />of the market average for the City Council. Additionally, this allows for a $1,500.00 spread <br />between positions. <br /> <br />• Option 3: Increasing the Mayor's salary to $7,500.00 ($800 increase) and increase Council <br />Member Salary ($400 increase) to $6,250.00. This places both positions slightly ahead of the <br />market average (if using 2024 data) at 0.55% ahead of the market average for the Mayor and <br />4.51% ahead of the market average for the City Council. Additionally, this allows for a $1,250.00 <br />spread between positions. <br />Little <br />Canada <br />Mayor <br />Salary <br />Mayor <br />Actual <br />Salary <br />Market <br />Minimum <br />LC Actual <br />(+/-) <br />market <br />minimum <br />actual <br />Mayor <br />Actual <br />Salary <br />Market <br />Average <br />LC Actual <br />(+/-) <br />market <br />average <br />actual <br />Mayor <br />Actual <br />Salary <br />Market <br />Maximum <br />LC Actual <br />(+/-) market <br />average <br />maximum <br />$6,700.00 $5,700.00 14.93%↓ $8,365.43 24.86%↑ $17,429.73 160.15%↑ <br />Little <br />Canada <br />Council <br />Member <br />Salary <br />Council <br />Member <br />Actual <br />Salary <br />Market <br />Minimum <br />LC Actual <br />(+/-) <br />market <br />minimum <br />actual <br />Council <br />Member <br />Actual <br />Salary <br />Market <br />Average <br />LC Actual <br />(+/-) <br />market <br />average <br />actual <br />Council <br />Member <br />Actual <br />Salary <br />Market <br />Maximum <br />LC Actual <br />(+/-) market <br />average <br />maximum <br />$5,850.00 $4,200.00 28.21%↓ $6,820.28 16.59%↑ $15,341.13 162.24%↑