No Spokane city employee could earn more than $182,000 annually under a package of changes to City Hall’s budgeting process being proposed by Council President Ben Stuckart.
“We’re not the private sector, we’re the public sector,” said Stuckart, who doesn’t expect a vote on the measure until next month at the earliest. “We’ve got to hold the line somewhere.”
The law would cap earnings for City Hall’s roughly 3,000 employees, including part-time help, at four times the median household income in Spokane. That would institute a salary cap of $182,000 for this year, the council president said. Stuckart said his research indicated the restriction would only potentially apply currently to two people working at City Hall – the police and fire chiefs.