Two weeks ago council deferred voting on a recommendation to receive 10 per cent less than what the Local Government Remuneration Tribunal approved in June.

However, at Tuesday night's meeting they will vote on a recommendation to boost councillors' pay by $4040 to $24,320 a year and raise the mayoral allowance by $15,830 to $60,080.

As the mayor, currently Cr Reg Kidd, also gets the councillor allowance his pay packet would rise by nearly $20,000 a year.

The combined total wage cost would add $64,310 to council's annual budget.

The pay rise is due to Orange City Council being upgraded by the tribunal to a regional centre from a regional rural council.

Councillors in Bathurst and Tamworth have already voted to receive the maximum while several other regional centre councils will consider the pay rise this month.

The report said Dubbo Regional Council had deferred the matter until December.

At the previous council meeting there was concern councillors would breach pecuniary interest rules by voting on their own pay rises.

The report to council said there were benefits in increasing the allowances.

"While such increases in remuneration are rarely popular it does go some way to reflecting the workload of councillors particularly so given the ambitious program that council has adopted," it said.

"Additionally increased remuneration may develop the candidate pool at future elections," the report said.

"While revenue is not a driving motivation for representation, limited remuneration maybe a factor for some being not capable of candidacy."

The report also suggests the tribunal should have set a figure rather than allowing a wide range for councillors to decide on.

"The key problem with the Local Government Remuneration Tribunal is not that there are new categorisations making distinctions between councils but that the large range within those categories," it said.

"It would be beneficial if the tribunal gave more concise recommendations in the future. The councillor range for a regional centre is $13,820 to $24,320 and for a mayor $28,750 to $60,080. It would be useful if an allowance was set rather than a range."