San Francisco Mayor *Ed Lee*'s $297,387 salary

San Francisco Mayor *Ed Lee*'s $297,387 salary last year was enough to make him the highest-paid mayor in California, according to data recently compiled by the state controller's office .

By comparison, the state's second-highest-paid mayor, *Eric Garcetti* of Los Angeles, made $246,303 last year. Oakland Mayor *Libby Schaaf* rounds out the top three with a 2016 salary of $212,000.

The wages and benefits of all elected officials in San Francisco are set by the city's Civil Service Commission.

In May 2012, the commission "certified the base salary for elected officials, including Lee, for a five-year salary cycle for the period of July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2017," said *Deirdre Hussey*, the mayor's spokeswoman.

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Overall, San Francisco's highest-paid government employee last year was the chief investment officer for the city's retirement services system, who pulled in $527,343.

San Francisco's 39,634 government employees were paid nearly $3.3 billion in wages last year. Average salaries for city workers have risen steadily over the past six years. In 2010, the average salary for a city worker was $65,317; last year, that figure was $83,227.

/- Dominic Fracassa/

*Ethics complaint: *The San Francisco Ethics Commission is investigating a complaint over a meeting between Mayor *Ed Lee* and former Mayor *Willie Brown*, at which Brown allegedly violated a city disclosure law.

Brown failed to disclose whom he was representing when he signed in at the mayor's office on Oct. 1, 2015, according to the complaint filed last year by former mayoral and supervisorial candidate *Michael Petrelis*.

"I wouldn't remember anything about that," Brown said Friday of the meeting. Brown is also a San Francisco Chronicle columnist.

A spokeswoman for Lee said the mayor had not communicated with the Ethics Commission regarding the case, and therefore could not comment.

/- Rachel Swan/