Top NYC City Hall officials got double-digit pay hikes, pushing many salaries above Mayor Adams’

Some of Mayor Adams’ apical advisers received wage increases this twelvemonth that pushed their salaries supra his, including David Banks, the since-resigned schools chancellor whose wage bump made him the highest-paid metropolis authorities worker implicit the past decade, caller payroll information shows.

Banks, who stepped down earlier this month successful the aftermath of getting his location raided by national authorities successful transportation with 1 of respective corruption probes into Adams’ administration, saw his yearly wage boosted to $414,799 arsenic portion of the question of wage hikes, the information disclosed Wednesday reveals.

That pay, up 12.5% from the $363,346 Banks antecedently collected, made him the highest-paid metropolis worker listed successful the municipal government’s payroll database, which dates backmost to fiscal twelvemonth 2014.

Additionally, the caller information shows six of Adams’ lawman mayors — including Banks’ younger brother, ex-Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks, who besides resigned this period aft being ensnared successful a corruption probe — saw their yearly salaries boosted to $287,663 from $251,982.

Adams’ main advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin and main of unit Camille Joseph Varlack saw their wage grades lifted successful the aforesaid manner.

Former Schools Chancellor David Banks is during a property league astatine the Bronx School of Law, Government and Justice connected Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (Shawn Inglima for New York Daily News)

Former First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, who resigned aft being raided by the feds arsenic well, had her wage jacked up to $313,941 from her erstwhile $275,000.

The lawman mayors, Lewis-Martin and Varlack each received one-time $3,000 bonuses earlier this year, too, issued arsenic portion of an statement announced for non-unionized managerial metropolis employees, the information shows.

But 1 metropolis worker who didn’t get a rise this twelvemonth was the politician himself.

His yearly wage has stayed level astatine $258,750 since helium became politician connected Jan. 1, 2022, and helium didn’t cod the $3,000 bonus this year, either, the information shows. That means galore members of the mayor’s elder unit astatine City Hall present marque much than helium does, arsenic bash astir of his commissioners, who besides got 12.5% wage bumps this year, including since-resigned NYPD caput Edward Caban, the information confirms.

Fabien Levy, the lawman politician for communications whose wage is present $287,663, didn’t instantly instrumentality a petition for remark Wednesday.

Sheena Wright, erstwhile First Deputy Mayor, is pictured adjacent to Mayor Adams during a property league astatine City Hall connected Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News)

It first emerged this past February that Adams was awarding raises to apical metropolis authorities officials, though it wasn’t wide astatine the clip precisely who would and wouldn’t get them.

The increases came aft Adams instituted a since-lifted hiring frost crossed astir each metropolis agencies successful autumn 2023 owed to concerns astir the municipal government’s finances driven by spending connected services for newly-arrived migrants.

At the time, Adams said the migrant situation was putting specified a strain connected the municipal government’s finances that helium feared it would “destroy New York City” and effect successful drastic nationalist work cuts. Many of the the cuts were rolled backmost amid stronger revenues and initiatives that reduced the costs associated with caring for migrants.