Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter is strongly defending the salaries he is paying his top staff — salaries that in some instances approach $200,000 a year.

“These people didn’t get raises. They took pay cuts.”

Mayor Nutter says the top brass in his administration made sacrifices when they agreed to leave the private sector and come work for his administration. Some of them are earning a shade under $200,000 — more than the mayor himself:

“The police commissioner could have made more somewhere else, and the managing director the same. So I’m very happy to have these fine individuals as part of our team, and they’re going to serve the citizens of this city well.”

Nutter says his new chief of staff took a 50-percent cut in salary to leave his previous job and go to work at City Hall.
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