Baltimore's Mayor and City Council Getting Raises

RadioOnFire.com - The mayor and other top officials in Baltimore will be getting a pay raise in the new year.

Without debate, the Board of Estimates approved raises for Mayor Catherine Pugh, Comptroller Joan Pratt, City Council President Jack Young and the members of the City Council.

All three officials sit on the board, though they abstained from voting for their own raises.

Under the plan, the mayor gets a nearly $4,300 raise for an annual  salary of $175,926.00.

Young and Pratt will each get raises of nearly will see raises of more than $2,800 each for an annual  salary of $116,490.00.

City Council Vice President Ed Reissinger will get a more than $1,800 for a salary of $74,888.

The remaining 13 members of the city  council will each get a more than $1,600 r raise to earn nearly $67,756.00 a year.

The raises will take effect on January 1.

Source WBAL