Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani voted to drastically raise his state Assembly salary on the taxpayers’ dime days before Christmas 2022 — a move critics are citing as clashing with his campaign image as a political outsider fighting for the working class.
The pay hike brought state lawmaker pay from $110,000 to $142,000 a year, after they gave themselves a bump from $79,500 just three years earlier.
That brought the state legislature including Mamdani – who lives in one of the city’s coveted rent-stabilized apartments — to an income level that is now 77% above the median for city dwellers, and almost three times that of the median for New York state residents.
Mamdani voted with a slew of Dems in 2022 to raise their legislative salaries. Matthew McDermott
Mamdani voted in lockstep with the Democratic establishment, who justified the holiday gift to themselves by also setting new increases on