The City Council Wednesday approved a motion to cancel a scheduled 4% raise -- or so-called salary adjustment -- for council aides.
In a 13-0 vote, council members instructed the city administrative officer to effectuate their request and retain the current salary schedule for the employees. Council member Monica Rodriguez and Katy Yaroslavsky were absent during the vote.
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Council aides were among several classifications of workers who received a 6% salary adjustment in 2024, as part of the labor agreement approved by the City Council and Mayor Karen Bass in fiscal year 2023-24.
Under the agreement, unionized and some non-represented workers are scheduled to receive a 4% salary adjustment effective June 29 and a 2% increase on Dec. 28 -- followed by another 6% increase in 2026 and a 4% increase in 2027.
Last week, Councilman Tim McOsker and Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson introduced a motion to cancel the scheduled 4% salary adjustment for their staff that was to go in effect next month.
Similarly, Bass has said she will take a pay cut and hold off on scheduled raises for her staff.
"The mayor is taking a pay cut and Mayor's Office staff are not taking their regularly scheduled cost of living adjustments office-wide in June 2025 (4%), December 2025 (2%), and June 2026 (4%)," Zach Seidl, a spokesman for Bass, said in a previous statement.
Neither Bass nor her office has confirmed how much of a pay cut she would take.
The move comes as the city grapples with a roughly $1 billion deficit in the coming fiscal year, prompting layoffs and the elimination of vacant positions to help close that gap.
Elected officials have created a plan to reduce proposed layoffs from 1,647 to less than 700. Additionally, the mayor has said the city is working toward reducing more layoffs by transferring employees to proprietary departments such as the Department of Water and Power, airports and port.
Those city agencies are funded separately through revenues generated by their operations and not by the general fund.
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