SYRACUSE, N.Y. (syracuse.com) — As the city’s top lawyer, Corporation Counsel Susan Katzoff earned $175,000 last year, making her the highest-paid member of the mayor’s senior staff. But unlike the rest of the executive team, Katzoff has a lucrative second job.
Since taking the City Hall position more than four years ago, Katzoff has been allowed to work one day a week for a private law firm. In 2025, that moonlighting arrangement brought Katzoff up to $175,000 in outside income, according to a financial disclosure statement Syracuse.com obtained via a Freedom of Information Law request.
Previously unreported details of Katzoff’s part-time employment at the prominent Syracuse law firm Bousquet Holstein raise questions about the potential for conflicts for the city’s chief legal adviser.
