Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and City Council members got another pay hike when the city\u2019s new fiscal year kicked in on Oct. 1\u00a0\u2014 their second salary bump since they began their four-year term in June 2025.<\/p>\n
Jones\u2019 annual salary rose from $96,600 last fiscal year to $100,600 this year, while the 10 council members\u2019 annual pay went up from $77,000 to $80,500.<\/p>\n
The adjustments are the result of a city charter amendment that San Antonio voters approved in 2024.<\/p>\n
The charter change boosted council pay from $45,722 to $70,200, and the mayor\u2019s salary from $61,725 to $87,000, with the new salaries taking effect in June 2025. Their pay hadn\u2019t been increased since 2015.<\/p>\n
Former Mayor Ron Nirenberg assigned a charter review commission in late 2023 to determine how much city representatives should be compensated. The idea was that higher salaries would make it so council members could treat the position as a full-time job\u00a0\u2014 so they would no longer need to work other jobs to pay their bills.<\/p>\n
The charter amendment also baked in future raises by tying their pay to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development\u2019s median income for a four-person household in the San Antonio-New Braunfels metropolitan area, a figure that fluctuates as HUD updates it every spring.\u00a0The mayor is paid 100% of that amount and council members receive 80% of it.<\/p>\n
The city reviews and adjusts the mayor and council\u2019s salaries during budget season.<\/p>\n
The mayor and City Council received their first indexed pay raise a year ago.<\/p>\n
This fiscal year\u2019s salary adjustments amount to a 4% raise for Jones and a 4.5% raise for council. That\u2019s slightly higher than the 3% salary increase that city employees will receive as part of the $4.4 billion budget the council adopted in a 7-4 vote on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n
Jones voted against the\u00a0budget, as did council members Marc\u00a0Whyte, Misty Spears and Marina Alderete Gavito, because they opposed the 3.9% property tax increase required to fund it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and City Council members got another pay hike when the city\u2019s new fiscal year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-461579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461579","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=461579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}