The City Council voted 42-6 Thursday to implement the first pay raise for elected officials since 2016, lifting the mayor's salary to $305,800 — but Zohran Mamdani said he will refuse the increase, and Speaker Julie Menin, who abstained, said the same.

The New York City Council voted 42 to 6 on Thursday to give the city's elected officials their first pay raise since 2016 — and Mayor Zohran Mamdani promptly said he wouldn't take the money.

The legislation implements the 18.2% salary increases recommended earlier this year by the Quadrennial Advisory Commission. Under the new rates: the mayor's salary rises from $258,750 to $305,800; Council members go from $164,500 to $175,500; the speaker's salary reaches $194,400; and district attorneys are set at $251,500, aligning them with county supreme court judges, according to PIX11.

Speaker Julie Menin abstained rather than vote on the measure, and announced she will also forgo the raise. Mamdani made his position plain at a news conference Thursday. "I will not accept a pay raise," he said. "I haven't knocked on anyone's door in New York City, and they've said that their concern is that the mayor makes too little."

The three-member advisory commission's report, released earlier this year, cited a 30% cumulative inflation rate since 2016 to argue the raises were overdue — an argument Citizens Union and Reinvent Albany backed at a July 9 committee hearing. Both watchdog groups did flag one provision: a clause that would let future officials receive automatic cost-of-living bumps without convening a new commission.

The legislation also covers the public advocate and borough presidents. The names of the six members who voted no were not immediately available.