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What each councillor has declared in the register of interests council publishes.

Frank Wilkie

What Noosa Council paid Frank Wilkie and what Frank claimed on top, Jan–Jun 2014 to 2024-25, as the annual reports print it. Every figure links to the page it was read from.

$1,079,375remuneration, 12 years
$108,659expenses and allowances
$18,199of that, beyond the flat allowances

Year by year

YearRole Salary + super Expenses total Beyond allowances Source
Jan–Jun 2014 Councillor 32,870‡ 3,940 0 AR 2014 p.12, AR 2014 p.14
2014-15 Councillor 69,926 9,087 1,207 AR 2014-15 p.13, AR 2014-15 p.15
2015-16† Deputy Mayor / Councillor 74,589 7,742 19 AR 2015-16 p.15, AR 2015-16 p.17
2016-17 Deputy Mayor 85,841 9,212 1,332 AR 2016-17 p.9, AR 2016-17 p.10
2017-18 Deputy Mayor 87,558 8,516 636 AR 2017-18 p.16, AR 2017-18 p.18
2018-19 Deputy Mayor 89,528 11,269 3,389 AR 2018-19 p.28, AR 2018-19 p.30
2019-20† Deputy Mayor 91,336 10,192 2,315 AR 2019-20 p.18, AR 2019-20 p.19
2020-21 Deputy Mayor 89,840 8,532 652 AR 2020-21 p.35, AR 2020-21 p.36
2021-22 Deputy Mayor 93,215 7,880 0 AR 2021-22 p.61, AR 2021-22 p.62
2022-23 Deputy Mayor 95,073 8,923 1,043 AR 2022-23 p.86, AR 2022-23 p.87
2023-24† Mayor / Deputy Mayor 111,350 8,581 701 AR 2023-24 p.75, AR 2023-24 p.76
2024-25 Mayor 158,249 14,785 6,905 AR 2024-25 p.49, AR 2024-25 p.50

What the expenses were

The categories as each year's report printed them. The vehicle and home-office figures are flat allowances paid to every councillor; the others are claims. A dash is a category that year's table did not have.

Year Mandatory PD & representation Discretionary PD & representation Vehicle allowance Home office & phone Accommodation Hospitality Travel Hospitality & travel Total
Jan–Jun 2014 0 0 2,500 1,440 0 — — — 3,940
2014-15 0 1,207 5,000 2,880 — 0 0 — 9,087
2015-16† 0 19 4,843 2,880 — — 0 — 7,742
2016-17 582 750 5,000 2,880 — 0 0 — 9,212
2017-18 566 71 5,000 2,880 — 0 0 — 8,516
2018-19 685 2,704 5,000 2,880 — — 0 — 11,269
2019-20† 2,315 0 4,997 2,880 — — 0 — 10,192
2020-21 652 0 5,000 2,880 — — 0 — 8,532
2021-22 0 0 5,000 2,880 — — 0 — 7,880
2022-23 1,043 0 5,000 2,880 — — 0 — 8,923
2023-24† 701 0 5,000 2,880 — — — 0 8,581
2024-25 3,929 643 5,000 2,880 — — — 2,333 14,785

Footnotes

† An election year: council printed the figures as two tables, to and from polling day. The two are added here; the source links open both.

Reading the figures. "Mandatory" professional development and representation is conference travel the policy funds without a case-by-case claim: the LGAQ conference, the Mayor at the national ALGA assembly, and anything else Council resolved to send a councillor to. "Discretionary" is the councillor's own allowance for courses and conferences, capped at $2,500 a year with one year's carry-forward. Council reports each year that every claim fell within the policy's limits. No report itemises what a conference or trip cost; a year's figure is the year's figure. The policy is on council's website.

All councillors' years side by side: pay and expenses.