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The New York City Council is set to vote on a bill that would raise their salaries by 18.2% – after a Mayor Zohran Mamdani-appointed advisory committee recommended a pay raise for city leaders.

Democratic Council Member Nantasha Williams sponsored the bill following the release of a report by the three-person Quadrennial Advisory Commission that Mamdani put together. The report says the council should pass a measure to increase salaries for NYC’s borough presidents, council members, city officials and district attorneys.

The bill would increase Williams and her colleagues’ salaries from $148,500 to $175,500 backdated to January, Mamdani’s from $258,750 to $305,800 and Council Speaker Julie Menin’s from $164,500 to $194,000.

The new proposed salary for Mamdani, a democratic-sociaist, would put his pay higher than the combined salaries of the governors of Florida and Texas. And New York City’s council members would earn more than members of Congress and state legislators in every U.S. state: the base salary for Congress members is $173,900, and the average annual base salary for a state legislator was $47,904 in 2025.