A Jersey City councilman wants a pay hike -- one that would more than double his current salary.

Michael Yun, who represents Ward D on the nine-member City Council, is floating a plan that would boost each council member's pay from roughly $35,000 to $75,000, while their aides' pay would nearly triple -- from $15,000 to $40,000.

The council president would get a pay hike from $36,000 to $80,000.

The measure, which would also bar anyone who takes the higher salary from holding a second public job, would put the city more in line with Newark, where council members are paid $85,000 each.

Yun’s plan hasn’t made it to the council agenda yet, but he’s sent it around to his council peers to get their opinion, according to a document obtained by The Jersey Journal.

Yun stressed to a reporter that the figures he’s floating are just a suggestion, and he said he doesn’t care about his own salary.

As the owner of a number of Jersey City properties, including Garden State News on Central Avenue, Yun said the council salary is “not an issue for me.” But he worries that the current pay for council members and their aides isn’t enough to attract qualified candidates who can provide “checks and balances” to the mayor’s staff.

“We’re short on manpower,” he said. “We can’t do true research, analysis.”

Yun’s plan would need approval from the state Legislature, since state law sets $15,000 as the maximum salary for council aides in any New Jersey city with a population over 200,000 and under 270,000, a designation that applies only to Jersey City.

Jersey City council gigs are considered part-time, and there are at least four council members who don’t have full-time jobs. One of them, Councilman at-large Daniel Rivera, said he agrees with Yun that council members aren’t paid enough, but he adds that “politically, it would be a nightmare” to hike their own pay.

“We’ve been working our butts off since we got elected,” Rivera said.

In 2013, Jersey City, with a population of 254,441, spent $584,200 on council pay. Newark, which has 277,727 residents, budgeted $3.2 million last year for council wages.

Paterson, where the population is 145,219, spent $603,340 in 2013 on council salaries, while Camden, population 77,250, spent $363,887.

In the mid-1980s, Jersey City council members made only $10,000 each. The body hiked that to $15,000 in the later part of the decade, and then again to $22,500 in the mid-1990s.

With that last hike, the council added a provision allowing for automatic but slight increases in pay.

John Weingart, associate director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, said the low salaries of some elected officials is a genuine roadblock to recruiting candidates who might want to serve but can’t afford to put in full-time work for a part-time salary.

But, Weingart added, the general public has a tendency to “demean” public officials and elected officials and “begrudge them any money.”

“So any effort to raise that comes with political peril because it makes them an easy target,” he said.