In this Nov. 14, 2016 photo, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee speaks during a meeting at City Hall in San Francisco. For nearly a decade, George Lucas has been trying to build a museum for his extensive personal art collection. San Francisco has offered Lucas the site of Treasure Island, across the Bay from the city's popular Embarcadero neighborhood. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is the highest-paid mayor in the nation. The “American City Business Journal” reports that Lee’s 289-thousand dollar annual salary is the highest for any mayor. The mayor of the biggest city in the U.S., New York’s Bill de Blasio, collects 225-thousand a year. The country’s lowest-paid mayor is Allen Joines of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His work at City Hall pays only 13-thousand dollars a year. The mayoral position in Santa Rosa pays just over 76-thousand dollars a year.