The results are in for a public survey asking how much London’s elected city leaders should be paid.

The survey is just one of the tools used by an independent committee that is coming up with a new salary structure for London city councillors and the mayor.

The survey was made available near the start of the month, after three weeks of collecting the data the council compensation review task force has released the findings.

The opinions of Londoners vary. Vanessa Junior sits on the committee as a citizen at large. She was surprised to see the array of responses.

“It really gives you a sense that London is a very broad and diverse city and we're trying to take all of those recommendations and put something good together,” says Junior.

London's part-time councillors earn around $33,500 a year, while the full-time mayor Joe Fontana makes around $104,000.

An overwhelming 48 per cent thought the mayor should be paid less, while only 22 per cent thought more.

For city councillors, 35 per cent thought they should be paid more. However, of that 35 per cent 52 per cent thought it should be less than $35,000.

Acting chair Jennifer Tozer said that when comparing to other cities, the councillors are around par.

“The results weren't far off of what councillors make in terms of the median point, the average it was a little bit more, but the median point was still very similar for councillors,” says Tozer.

One third of the money they make is tax free. The survey found that over 50 per cent of people thought that benefit should be removed.

“If that were removed, it would result in a budget increase of around $81,000, but a lot of people still felt that it should be removed,” says Tozer. “So I definitely think it's a perceptual thing.”

Although the task force didn't come up with exact numbers on these salaries, they did come to a consensus on benefits and are prepared to make decisions next week.

“We hope to be finalizing some recommendation especially on the bigger items like the stipend and what councillors should be paid, the one-third tax salary,” says Tozer. “So that should be a down to business meeting to get things put together.”

The final council decision won't take effect until a new council is elected and takes office in December, 2014. The task force only has two meetings left. The deadline for the final report outlining the recommendations is Oct. 9.