Johnson will make $221,052 next year, a 2.24% pay hike that is more modest than the 9.6% raise most aldermen accepted last year.
Stuck inside Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget proposal for 2024 is the disclosure that he, the city clerk, the treasurer and a vast majority of the Chicago City Council’s 50 members have accepted a pay raise for next year. At 2.24%, the across-the-board hike is a more modest bump than the 9.6% raise aldermen were able to accept at this time last year just before facing voters at the ballot box.
A total of 31 aldermen currently make the highest pay at nearly $142,780 a year, though 13 of them are freshmen who did not vote for their own raises. The lowest-paid members of the council are Ald. Gilbert Villegas, 36th, at $115,560, and Ald. Marty Quinn, 13th, at $115,800. City Council members have varying salaries, because of previous decisions to forgo annual raises. Of those top earners, 29 aldermen opted to take the 2.24% raise next year, according to 2024 budget data.
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