From the New York Post: One of socialist Zohran Mamdani’s first decisions as mayor could be whether to give himself and his City Council pals a big fat pay raise.
Councilwoman Nantasha Williams (D-Queens) pushed a bill Tuesday to bump pay for the city’s elected officials by more than 16%, with an eye to sending it to Mamdani’s desk after he’s sworn in as mayor on Jan. 1.
But the original plan for the bill had originally been to set up a speedy vote this month, before Mamdani took office – a maneuver council members had to scuttle when they realized city law blocked them from voting on the pay raises during the post-election lame-duck period.
The hasty, confused pay push raised eyebrows among many insiders, who gossiped that the City Council was either trying to pull an end run around the incoming mayor or spare him an embarrassing early decision.
The report explains that if Mamdani approves the bill, the council members would get their first pay raise in nearly a decade, and their salaries would jump from an already whopping $148,500 to a jaw-dropping $172,500. It would increase the payroll budget from $7.5 million to $8.8 million.
The pay raise would also benefit Mamdani, as it would increase the mayor’s salary from the current $258,750 to $300,500.
Now Mamdani is in a bind, as he ran for office touting he wanted to make New York City more affordable for the working class.
Fraud investigator Sam Antar commented on the report, writing:
NYC didn’t “sneak in” a 16% raise. They gift-wrapped it for Zohran Mamdani like a coronation bonus. This is what “grassroots revolution” looks like once the machine finishes laundering it:
💸 Pay hikes
💸 Patronage
💸 The same old insiders cashing outThe socialist mayor gets sworn in and surprise, everyone magically gets richer except the public.
NYC didn’t “sneak in” a 16% raise. They gift-wrapped it for Zohran Mamdani like a coronation bonus.
This is what “grassroots revolution” looks like once the machine finishes laundering it:
💸 Pay hikes
💸 Patronage
💸 The same old insiders cashing outThe socialist mayor gets… https://t.co/aX69vNm048
— Sam E. Antar (@SamAntar) November 25, 2025
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