Tulsa city councilors plan to start looking into pay increases for several elected and appointed Tulsa leaders.
City councilors spent more than half an hour Wednesday talking about it, with Tulsa City Councilor Crista Patrick leading the discussion.
"I'm not fighting for my own salary, I'm fighting for the people who come after me to make sure that we can get an equitable person, we can get a person who properly compensated for the work that they do so that we have proper representation for the citizens of our city," Patrick said.
She said she currently has plans to run for re-election.
"I'm having pretty big difficulties making ends meet on this salary," Patrick said.
Patrick said she asked the city's HR department to look into a study to see what similar municipalities are offering.
"We want to make sure that we're not preempting people from doing this job," she said.
Since April 2002, Tulsa's mayor gets paid $105,000 annually. The city auditor makes 70% of the mayor's salary, which means they haven't gotten a raise either.
Councilors make $24,000 a year, which was last increased in December 2014.
Voters have to approve a charter amendment to give councilors a pay bump.
If the changes are made, they would go into effect in the next election cycle.