D.C. Council members are deliberating whether to give themselves a major pay hike, taking their $92,500 to as much as $140,000 a year, to keep their salaries in relative line with the council chairman’s.

Legislation increasing the mayor’s salary to $200,000 and the council chairman’s pay to $190,000 will be considered by the council Tuesday. The salaries of the two D.C. leaders are linked in the charter — when one goes up, so must the other. And the chairman’s pay, under the D.C. Code, must be $10,000 less than the chief executive’s.