The city charter requires the mayor to receive a specific salary rate, and Lurie will automatically donate all but $1 of those wages back to the city, according to his spokesperson, Max Szabo.
Lurie’s net worth is estimated to be up to nearly $33 million, according to the San Francisco Standard. His background represents a sharp contrast from Breed, a fellow San Francisco native who grew up in the city’s public housing. Her salary for the 2024–25 fiscal year is $383,760, according to a July report from the city’s Civil Service Commission.
Lurie will be the first San Francisco mayor in nearly a century to have never served in elected office before taking over City Hall. He previously started and ran an anti-poverty nonprofit called the Tipping Point.
A moderate Democrat, Lurie ran a campaign focused on bringing change to what he often referred to as a corrupt and dysfunctional political environment in San Francisco, and he embraced being the only leading candidate with no prior experience working in City Hall.
“Hope is alive and well in San Francisco,” Lurie told supporters at a press conference in November. “Our mandate is to show how government must deliver on its promises. Clean and safe streets for all. Tackling our drug and behavioral health crisis, shaking up the corrupt and ineffective bureaucracy, building enough housing so our neighbors can afford to live here.”
Lurie follows a small handful of wealthy elected officials who have given back all but $1 of their salary in the form of nontaxable donations. That list includes former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whom Lurie has said he looks up to as a model for city leadership, as well as former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
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