The City Council Wednesday will consider a motion that, if approved, would cancel a scheduled 4% raise or so-called salary adjustment for council aides.
Last week, Councilman Tim McOsker and Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson introduced a motion to cancel a 4% salary adjustment for their staff. If the motion is not approved, the salary increase is expected to take effect June 29.
Similarly, Mayor Karen 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.
Bass nor her office has not 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 they are working toward reducing more layoffs by transferring employees to proprietary departments such as the Department of Water and Power, airports and port.
These city agencies are funded separately through revenues generated by their operations and not by the general fund.