As Toronto councillors prepare to vote Wednesday on whether to give themselves a staff-recommended pay raise of nearly 25 per cent, the city's mayor says the proposed increase is too high in light of tariffs and economic uncertainty.

The recommended raise, which would be the first pay increase for councillors since 2006 outside adjustments for inflation, comes from a staff report from the city's chief people officer Mary Madigan-Lee. Madigan-Lee's report recommends increasing the current base sa…