D.C. Council members receive the second-highest pay among lawmakers in the nation’s biggest cities and also spend more on their staffs than any other city council, a report released Wednesday by the Pew Charitable Trust said.

The 12 members of the D.C. Council earn $125,000 a year and the council chairman earns $190,000 annually. Only city lawmakers in Los Angeles get paid more than those in the District. In L.A. they earn nearly $179,000 each year. That puts D.C. ahead of much larger cities like New York, Chicago and Dallas, which were also surveyed by Pew.