Mayor Pugh Names Top Staff, To Pay Top Advisers $805,000

Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh, who was inaugurated Tuesday, will pay her five top advisers a total of about $805,000.

Her chief of staff, former schools CEO Tisha Edwards, is to be paid $190,000, which is $19,000 more than Pugh’s salary.

Former Del. Peter Hammen, Pugh’s chief of operations, and former Baltimore County executive James T. Smith Jr., her chief of strategic alliances, will each make $175,000.

Karen Stokes, director of government relations, will be paid $137,000. Anthony McCarthy, director of communications, will get $125,000.

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