The Living Wage Whanganui group has again asked Whanganui District Council to "step up" and pay all its staff enough to provide themselves with basic necessities.
About a quarter of Whanganui District Council employees are on the minimum wage or slightly above it, convenor Marion Sanson said.
She and a small group of T-shirted supporters made their verbal submission to Whanganui District Council on May 9. It was one of 37 submissions on the council's annual plan, and one of nine where submitters spoke in person.
Sanson cited figures the council supplied earlier this year, when the living wage was $20.55 an hour. At that time 71 people were on the minimum wage instead - $16.50 an hour.
On April 1 New Zealand's minimum wage rose to $17.70 an hour and its living wage - an estimate of how much it costs to provide basic necessities, live with dignity and participate in society - rose to $21.55 an hour.