City Council votes to give themselves 32% pay boost, bringing salaries to $148,500 a day after two NYPD cops were shot and only given a 1% pay increase

Less than 24 hours after two police officers who'd gotten 1% raises from the city were shot in a Bronx housing project, the City Council voted overwhelmingly Friday to grant themselves a 32% pay hike.

The move will raise their salaries from a robust $112,500 a year base to a whopping $148,500.

Forty members voted for the raises, and just seven — including the three sole Republicans in the Council — voted against the huge hikes.

City Council Minority Leader Steven Matteo, in a statement, said the Republicans didn't support it because it went above the recommendations of the pay raise commission Mayor de Blasio convened. That commission called for raises that would bring their salaries $138,315.

“We felt the salary recommendations made by the Quadrennial Commission were the starting point of a public conversation about our jobs and our compensation," he said.

"However, once it became clear that the proposed legislation by the Council would go beyond those recommendations, it precluded any potential support from our delegation."

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, who supports the higher pay raises, said the extra money was warranted because the Council as part of the deal is agreeing to give up outside income, as well as extra salary they received for chairing committees.

That extra salary — known as a lulu — was an average of $8,000 more per member, but some went as high as $25,000.

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