The top management positions under the District’s next mayor are likely to earn significantly more than their counterparts under Mayor Anthony Williams, just as Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty is likely to earn significantly more than his predecessor.
But every person Fenty hires will be paid “within the salary structure,” he said Thursday.
“We’ll do it just like any other person who hires someone,” Fenty said. “Look at what they make now, look at what the current position-holder makes and try and find something fair both for the person that we’re nominating and for the residents of the District of Columbia.”
Fenty’s two nominees for deputy mayor, Neil Albert for economic development and Victor Reinoso for education, will earn $175,000 a year each — 16 percent more than the $150,800 paid to all of Williams’ deputies. The pay for attorney general, general counsel and chief of staff (Linda Singer, Peter Nickels and Tene Dolphin) has not been finalized, a Fenty transition spokeswoman said.
But it is safe to assume they will earn more than former Williams’ Attorney General Robert Spagnoletti, at $138,640, his General Counsel Len Becker, at $131,763, and his Chief of Staff Alfreda Davis, at $162,908.
Pay raises, in comparison to Williams’ aides, are likely for all but one member of Team Fenty: Dan Tangherlini, city administrator, will earn $195,000 a year, the same as former City Administrator Robert Bobb.
Fenty, meanwhile, will earn $200,000 a year if the D.C. Council approves a proposed salary increase as expected. For the first time in years, the D.C. mayor will be the top earner in the executive and second in the District government only to Schools’ Superintendent Clifford Janey.
