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An 18% City Council pay hike is a middle finger to NYC voters

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It’s a move obscene on so many levels: Members of the City Council are looking to vote themselves a fat pay hike.

Just days after they approved a gargantuan $126 billion city budget, they took up a measure to boost their salaries more than 18% retroactive to Jan. 1 — plus automatic 2% hikes every year thereafter.

The hikes would push members’ pay to $175,500, upper middle-class income territory and more than twice the city’s median income ($81,228).

So the move shows complete contempt for city voters, who the pols plainly think won’t notice, as well as for the City Charter, which sets out an entirely different procedure for upping their pay.

Shame on Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Speaker........

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