{"id":158835,"date":"2026-02-10T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158835\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:20:09","slug":"fort-worth-city-leaders-consider-their-own-pay-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158835\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth city leaders consider their own pay raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9myaqc8inufzvqoj.jpg\" alt=\"Fort Worth leaders consider a pay raise\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Residents in Fort Worth may soon decide whether some city leaders deserve a pay raise.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The salaries for the mayor and city council members are up for debate.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Back in 2022, Fort Worth voters didn\u2019t approve a pay bump. It was rejected in 2016, too.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/V_WX-SKY-4-FORT-WORTH-SKYLINE-5P_KDFWefce_146_mxf_00.00.00.58.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">By the numbers:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Currently, Fort Worth\u2019s mayor earns $29,000 per year. A new proposal would increase it to $60,000.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Council members make $25,000 annually, and that would double to $50,000.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">By comparison, the Dallas mayor earns $80,000 per year, and city council members earn $60,000.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The Fort Worth City Council is expected to discuss and vote on the pay raise proposal during Tuesday night\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">If approved, voters will get a say either during a special election or during the November election.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Council members could also put a nearly $850 million bond proposal on the May ballot. The majority of those funds would go towards street and infrastructure improvements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Fort Worth City Council agenda and past news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/organization\/fort-worth-council\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth City Council<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Residents in Fort Worth may soon decide whether some city leaders deserve a pay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,8481,118,117,223,1827,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-158835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-council","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}