Posted on 07/16/2026 3:32:08 PM PDT by Libloather
They raised a stink.
City Council members overwhelmingly voted Thursday to give themselves an 18% raise — a shamelessly self-serving move that comes after months of thwarted attempts to pass a fat pay hike.
A veto-proof 42-6 vote approved the measure to inflate council salaries to $175,500, as well as hike Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pay to $305,800 a year, backdated to January — the start of new terms in office and the first day on the job for some lawmakers.
The nay votes all came from Republicans and conservative Democrats, including Councilman Phil Wong (D-Queens), who said he pushed for savings in the city’s forever-bloated budget.
“In my district, there are so, so many constituents that are living paycheck to paycheck and having problems making ends meet,” he said.
“So, I cannot vote onto a bill to increase salaries for myself.”
The raises come not only after lawmakers approved a record-breaking $126 billion city budget, but also a bid to sneakily pass a smaller 16% hike as 2025 closed.
The end-of-year pay ploy ultimately failed, leading the effort’s champion Councilwoman Nantasha Williams (D-Queens) to try again — this time with the support of a three-person “Quadrennial Commission.”
The commission released a 127-page study in June recommending a 18.2% raise to restore the “lost purchasing power” in elected officials’ supposedly skimpy salaries because of inflation and cost of living increases.
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Only a very few in this world can set their pay like this.
There are 48 city council members?????
All political office’s salaries should be determined by public referendum. Let the voters decide on the salary, and on every pay increase.
Sorry but you’ll have to pay more taxes so they can get richer
“Shameless NYC Council members give themselves a big fat 18% pay hike — on first day on the job”. Who voted for them?
Of course !
Some communists are more valuable than others !
Nice pay raise!!!
Of course, I expect these people to also have their fingers in kickback schemes with fraudulent daycare centers or other such things. I mean, how else are they going to make ends meet?
The people that caused the price of everything to go up have no worries as long as the taxpayers still have money ,LOL
wish i coulda just given myself pay raises on first day on the job-
yes. after a lot of practice being corrupt (or evil, bigoted, hateful, etcetera) certain people (especially extreme leftists in today’s world) transcend the capacity to feel shame. From that point on, their evil ways are a free ride for them...and a non-stop ride....sort of like coasting downhill in neutral naturally
As
“Do you now there is a limit of ignominy, beyond which man’s consciousness of shame cannot go, and after which begins satisfaction in shame?” Fyodor Dostovevsky (in The Idiot)
Ain’t Communism wonderful. Did NYers get their free bus rides yet?
Self serving gluttons.
Enjoy your communism, NYCers.
They will ... over 40% of tenants are foreign born.
Communism fails again in the same old way.
I guess they still don’t have “the right people to make it work.”
One of the benefits of Socialism...those at the top prosper while everyone else pays.
Yes, it would have been much more efficient to pass both the pay hike and a tax increase in the same bill.
Yes, it would have been much more efficient to pass both the pay hike and a tax increase in the same bill.
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