Lightfoot proposes annual pay raise for Chicago’s mayor capped at 5%

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The salary of Chicago’s mayor hasn’t changed since 2005.Chicago’s mayor hasn’t gotten a pay raise since 2006. Mayors Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel and Lori Lightfoot have all been paid $216,210 a year.

Not for long, if Lightfoot gets her way.

The catch-all “management ordinance” introduced at Wednesday’s City Council meeting and tied to Lightfoot’s $16.4 billion budget proposes tying the mayor’s future salary to the rate of inflation or 5%, whichever is less.

The inflationary trigger is similar to one the mayor has imposed on annual property tax increases — though she’s forfeiting this year’s increase to give inflation-squeezed Chicagoans a pre-election reprieve.

A 5% pay…