What each councillor has declared in the register of interests council publishes.
Karen Finzel
What Noosa Council paid Karen Finzel and what Karen claimed on top, 2019-20 to 2024-25, as the annual reports print it. Every figure links to the page it was read from.
Year by year
| Year | Role | Salary + super | Expenses total | Beyond allowances | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20† | Councillor | 13,448 | 1,707 | 0 | AR 2019-20 p.18, AR 2019-20 p.19 |
| 2020-21 | Councillor | 76,363 | 8,471 | 591 | AR 2020-21 p.35, AR 2020-21 p.36 |
| 2021-22 | Councillor | 79,232 | 8,212 | 332 | AR 2021-22 p.61, AR 2021-22 p.62 |
| 2022-23 | Councillor | 80,810 | 11,754 | 3,874 | AR 2022-23 p.86, AR 2022-23 p.87 |
| 2023-24† | Councillor | 82,295 | 10,434 | 2,554 | AR 2023-24 p.75, AR 2023-24 p.76 |
| 2024-25 | Councillor | 84,068 | 15,573 | 7,693 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20† | 0 | 0 | 1,083 | 624 | — | — | 0 | — | 1,707 |
| 2020-21 | 0 | 591 | 5,000 | 2,880 | — | — | 0 | — | 8,471 |
| 2021-22 | 0 | 332 | 5,000 | 2,880 | — | — | 0 | — | 8,212 |
| 2022-23 | 0 | 3,874 | 5,000 | 2,880 | — | — | 0 | — | 11,754 |
| 2023-24† | 2,204 | 350 | 5,000 | 2,880 | — | — | — | 0 | 10,434 |
| 2024-25 | 5,527 | 2,155 | 5,000 | 2,880 | — | — | — | 11 | 15,573 |
† 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.