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For the city’s elected officials — including the mayor, comptroller, City Council speaker and council members — salaries have remained flat for 10 years.

Now, the council is poised to enact pay raises of 18.2%, based on the recent recommendation of an independent panel known as the Quadrennial Advisory Commission.

What You Need To Know

City elected officials would get an 18.2% pay raise under proposed City Council legislation The raises are in line with the recent recommendations of an independent commission Both City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Mayor Zohran Mamdani have said they’ll decline any pay raise

“This 10-year gap is the longest that city officials have gone without a raise in the 40 years since the commission’s framework has been in place,” City Council Member Gale Brewer said at a hearing Tuesday. “Over that time, salaries of New York elected officials have failed to keep pace with inflation and with the salaries of elected officials across the country.”

Proposed legislation would boost the mayor’s salary to $305,800, a bump of more than $47,000. The city comptroller’s pay would go up to about $247,100; the public advocate, $218,400; the City Council speaker, $194,400; and rank-and-file council members, $175,500.

The price tag to city taxpayers: $2.6 million in the new fiscal year.

Good-government groups that testified at the hearing largely support the bill.

“We think it’s important that our elected officials have competitive salaries,” Grace Rauh, executive director of Citizens Union, said. “One, it attracts stronger candidates. Two, it ensures that we don’t only have independently wealthy New Yorkers who are running for office. And three, it serves against any potential corruption.”

Under current law, the mayor must appoint an independent commission to consider pay raises every four years, but Mayors Michael Bloomberg, Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams often failed to do so. Under the proposed legislation, any failure to appoint a commission in the future would trigger automatic raises of up to two percent.

Advocates say that provision could be a mistake.

“Our fear is that if there is a backstop option of automatic pay raises on the books, that no future mayor is going to ever have any appetite for standing up a future commission,” Rauh said.

Under the proposed bill, recommended pay raises wouldn’t take effect until after the following election cycle, similar to Congress, which is prohibited under the 27th Amendment from voting itself immediate pay raises.

Both City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Mayor Zohran Mamdani have said they won’t accept any pay raise. The mayor was asked Tuesday whether others should.

“I leave it to them to make that decision, as well as to the City Council in their debate over this legislation,” he said at an unrelated press conference. “I will not be taking a raise if this legislation passes.”

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Both have him quoted saying he won't take the raise, guy's loaded anyhow he doesn't need the money.

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