The Baltimore City Council is considering a proposal that would increase the salaries of the city solicitor and the public works director.
The salary for the two positions would jump $18,170, from $169,830 to $188,000. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration introduced the bill Monday evening.
Anthony McCarthy, a spokesman for Rawlings-Blake, said the raises would put the pay more in line with similar positions in surrounding areas and other large cities.
"We see the increase as an important recruitment and retention tool for the next administration," McCarthy said.
The public works director for Baltimore County and Howard County earn $185,400 and $197,038, respectively, and the city solicitors for Philadephia and Washington earn $182,403 and $190,000, McCarthy said.
Rawlings-Blake received a pay raise from $167,000 to $171,000 in December. Fellow Board of Estimates member Joan Pratt also received a pay bump in December, to $113,000 from $110,000.
Baltimore Sun reporter Yvonne Wenger contributed to this article.