Council chiefs will travel to Holyrood next week for crunch talks with the Scottish Government to secure better funding for the city.
Council leader Jenny Laing and finance convener Willie Young will meet Finance Secretary Derek Mackay in a bid to get more cash for the Granite City on Tuesday.
Earlier this year, a report revealed the government grant for Aberdeen was the lowest of Scotland’s 32 local authorities at £330million for the city’s 228,923 citizens, around £1,440 per head.
Mr Young said: “We’re speaking to Derek Mackay and putting forward a case as to why Aberdeen deserves a better financial settlement than we get at present.
“We are the lowest funded council, and the point we want to make to Mr Mackay is we contribute more to the Scottish Government and the UK Government than any other city in Scotland, so it’s not fair that we contribute so much but don’t get as much back.
“Aberdeen creates great wealth through the oil industry and more, and for that money to go down to Edinburgh instead of staying in the city of Aberdeen is wrong.
“We need to work with the Scottish Government to incentivise the city to move forward.”
But Aberdeen South MP Callum McCaig, the former leader of Aberdeen City Council, said: “You have to look at what the SNP has done, we have introduced a funding floor which has brought several million pounds more funding a year into the city, we have invested £750million into the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route, and £125million for the city region deal – with extra money on top of that for additional infrastructure improvements.
“So if you look at local government funding in and of itself, Aberdeen is getting a better deal than it got under the Labour party, and when you take in the additional spending Aberdeen is attracting a lot of investment from the Scottish Government.”
A Scottish Government spokesman confirmed the meeting would take place on Tuesday.
