SEC. 2.100. COMPOSITION AND SALARY.
§ 2.100
The Board of Supervisors has eleven members elected by district and holds a full-time position. The Civil Service Commission sets Supervisors' salaries every five years based on surveys of comparable California cities and counties, and may consider inflation. The Commission's salary determinations go to the Controller for budgeting and cannot be changed except by the Commission itself, though they may be adjusted downward if the City negotiates cost-saving changes to employee union contracts.
San Francisco has 11 Supervisors, elected by district, in a full-time job. Every five years, the Civil Service Commission looks at what other California cities and counties pay their council members and board supervisors, and may also look at inflation, then sets a salary for San Francisco Supervisors. The Commission tells the Controller what salary they chose, and that number gets locked into the budget—only the Commission can change it later. If the City makes a deal with employee unions to cut costs, the Commission can lower Supervisor pay to match those savings.
- Complex:The section includes multiple procedural layers (Civil Service Commission setting, Controller implementation, coordination with budget cycles, initial setup period rules) that could be clearer about the actual decision-making flow.
- Controversial:Supervisor salary-setting involves public-policy disagreements about compensation levels, the role of comparables versus local context, and whether salary adjustments should be automatic or subject to voter/legislative input.
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Official text
The Board of Supervisors shall consist of eleven members elected by district.
The office of Board of Supervisors member is a full time position. The Civil Service Commission shall set the Supervisors' salary once every five years. Before the Commission determines the Supervisors' salary, it shall conduct and consider a salary survey of other full time California City Councils and County Boards of Supervisors and it may consider the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
The Civil Service Commission shall timely transmit its determination of the Supervisors' salary to the Controller, so that funds can be set aside for that purpose. The Controller shall include the Civil Service Commission's determination in appropriate budget documents to insure implementation. This determination may not be changed except by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service Commission shall establish dates for an appropriate five-year cycle for making the determinations required by this Section, in order to efficiently coordinate with City budget processes and related procedures. In order to institute this five-year cycle the initial determination may be for less than a five-year period, as determined by the Civil Service Commission.
If the City and employee organizations agree to amend the compensation provisions of existing memoranda of understanding to reduce costs, the Civil Service Commission shall review and amend the Supervisors' salary as necessary to achieve comparable cost savings in the affected fiscal year or years.
The provisions of this Section shall apply, notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter.
(Amended November 1996; June 1998; November 2002)