The Boston Redevelopment Authority has beefed up its staffers' salaries for the first time in five years.
The agency, whose budget is separate from the city's, recently awarded 3 percent raises to all except the top employees.
"This was the right time financially to give a cost of living increase," said BRA spokeswoman Susan Elsbree.
BRA employees have had no salary increases — only pay cuts and reinstatements — since 2008.
In June 2009, amid the Great Recession, the BRA slashed the salaries of all but the lowest-paid workers and cut 24 jobs to help address a $4 million budget shortfall.
Those wages were restored in late 2011 as the economy improved and lease revenue from BRA-owned property increased.
The BRA payroll has shrunk from 268 workers in fiscal 2009 to 207 today. The agency has also cut back on travel.
"We're just better positioned now," Elsbree said. "There was a lot of cost-cutting and belt-tightening, and now we're on better financial footing."
The 3 percent raises increased the number of BRA employees who earn six figures, according to publicly available payroll data requested by the Herald. There are 34 staffers above the $100,000 salary level, eight more than last year.
The most senior staff — nine employees including BRA director Peter Meade — did not receive pay hikes. Meade has the highest salary at $164,640, followed by chief planner Kairos Shen at $160,680.
BRA positions range from administrative assistants and project managers, to architects, planners, engineers and researchers.
Meade recently restructured the BRA's economic development department after the departure of a key director.
He created a division of business development led by Randi Lathrop, known for her work in Downtown Crossing.
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