Blaz hands out $1.6M in pay hikes

Mayor de Blasio doled out about $1.6 million in raises to favored City Hall staffers in the last fiscal year — including a 60% pay hike for a longserving aide Wiley Norvell, a Daily News analysis found.

The News analyzed salaries of 473 staffers who worked for the mayor’s office in fiscal 2017 and 2018, and found 106 got raises totaling more than $1.5 million.

At the top of the list was Norvell, who got a whopping $67,450 raise — bringing his salary to $180,000 from $112,550. That’s a 60% bump in a single fiscal year.

Norvell worked for de Blasio in the public advocate’s office before he was mayor. He has a reputation as being a true believer whose main job is making de Blasio look good.

The raise was issued in May of 2018, according to the City Record, when Norvell was named to senior communications adviser to the mayor.

De Blasio press secretary Eric Phillips said the raise was warranted for the new role.

“Wiley earned a big promotion to a senior role that involves significant staff management and direct reports to the mayor on several issues,” he said.

The raise was passed by the City Council — which gave itself a 32% boost in exchange for giving up most kinds of outside income — and signed by de Blasio in early 2016.