Mayor Michelle Wu vetoes City Council’s pay increases for elected officials https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/17/metro/mayor-michelle-wu-vetoes-city-councils-pay-increases-elected-officials/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter
Wu’s veto sends the proposal back to the council, which can override the mayor with a two-thirds vote, or nine of 13 councilors. And it tees up a political struggle between the council and the mayor, who have so far enjoyed a mostly cordial relationship. Will the body — which supported the raises unanimously — retreat from its earlier position and fall in line with the mayor? Or will it double down and pass the raises over her objections?
It was Wu who initially proposed pay increases for top city workers, when over the summer she floated raising the mayoral salary from $207,000 to $230,000 and the councilor salary from $103,500 to $115,000. Those proposed 11 percent increases were the result of a review by a city board that is required to recommend salary changes every two years for certain senior municipal officials whose pay is not governed by union contracts.
But city councilors ramped up Wu’s figures even higher, saying that would bring salaries more in line with those of elected officials in comparable cities. They all voted to raise the mayor’s salary to $250,000 and the councilor salary to $125,000.
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