Christchurch City councillors and Mayor Lianne Dalziel will get a 1.5 percent increase from July 1.

The job of a Christchurch City councillor will soon command a six-figure salary.

The Remuneration Authority has decided Christchurch City councillors and Mayor Lianne Dalziel will get a 1.5 per cent pay rise from July 1, pushing councillors' salaries over the $100,000 mark to $100,688 from $99,200.

The new salary will be $7588 higher than the $93,100 councillors started on when they were elected in 2013.

Dalziel's pay will increase by $2764 from $184,300 to $187,064.

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Deputy Mayor Vicki Buck will get $116,243 up $1717 from $114,526.

Remuneration Authority deputy chairwoman Angela Foulkes said the pay rise was in line with other large urban centres and was the final decision.

The authority has yet to set the rate for community boards because it had to wait for the outcome of the Local Government Commission's representation review, released last week.

Foulkes expected a decision on the community board salaries to be made in the next "two weeks or so".

The pay increases are on the back of last year's 4 per cent increase for councillors and a 2.8 per cent increase for the mayor, which were vehemently opposed by Dalziel and councillors.

Dalziel said the council did not have the ability to reject the pay rise, so it would be up to individual councillors to decide what to do with the increase.

Buck said 1.5 per cent was more reasonable than last year's 4 per cent, which she described as "embarrassing and unnecessary", but she still did not believe she needed a pay rise.

"I still don't think it needs to be anything, but a number that starts with a 1 or a 0 is way better."

Cr Tim Scandrett said the increase was beyond councillors' control, but the pay has never been a motivating factor for him.

Cr Glenn Livingstone said he was not sure what the average wage increase figures were, but the 1.5 per cent increase was a lot of money, especially since Christchurch was considered a low wage community.

"I worry about that gulf between the well paid and those that are not."

He said he would consider giving the increase to charity, as he did last year.

The authority sets the pay annually for key office holders, including local government representatives, members of parliament and judges. The mayor and councillors have no choice but to accept final decision.

Civic pay (after July 1, 2016)

Auckland

Mayor $269,482

Deputy Mayor $151,844

Councillor $105,813

Christchurch

Mayor $187,064

Deputy Mayor $116,243

Councillor $100,688

Wellington

Mayor $170,317

Deputy Mayor $107,447

Councillor $86,604