San Francisco’s Ed Lee — already the highest-paid mayor in the state — just got a $24,000 raise, bringing his salary to $326,527 a year.

Lee’s 7.9 percent raise is more than double the 3 percent that most city workers received this year.

And he’s not alone. As of July 1:

•District Attorney George Gascón’s pay went up $18,814, to $286,015.

•City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s salary rose $20,843, to $269,523.

•Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s went up $6,109, to $247,909.

•Sheriff Vicki Hennessy, up $12,091, to $243,699.

•Assessor-Recorder Carmen Chu, up $10,207, to $203,288.

•And Treasurer-Tax Collector Jose Cisneros, up $3,783, to $191,968.

Only Adachi and Cisneros came in under the 3 percent bar.

Lee’s pay hike edges the mayor past Police Chief Bill Scott, who makes $323,076 annually, and Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White, who gets $317,408.

Unlike rank-and-file city workers and their department head bosses, whose raises are negotiated with the city, elected officials’ pay is set once every five years by the San Francisco Civil Service Commission. It’s based on the pay of similar positions in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.

For example, when it comes to the D.A.’s salary, the commission looked at Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen — at the high end, $343,760 — and Marin County District Attorney Ed Berberian, bringing up the rear at $229,882. The five-county average determined Gascón’s $286,015 salary.

Because San Francisco is both a city and a county — and because counties do not have mayors — Lee’s salary is figured based on the salaries of Bay Area county administrators. Those range from a high of $359,423 in Santa Clara County to a low of $269,277 in Marin.

Interesting to note: Bay Area counties pay their elected officials and appointed county managers way more than statewide officials.

For example, Gov. Jerry Brown gets $190,100 a year — and he’s the second-highest-paid governor in the country, behind Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf.

So now that the Civil Service Commission has done its once-every-five-years salary reset, what happens for the next four years?

The officeholders will be eligible for cost-of-living increases of up to 5 percent a year, every year, until 2022.

Fired up: San Francisco firefighter Jessica Lee had just finished the three-hour drive from her home in Mariposa early Tuesday to start her shift at Station 51 in the Presidio when she got a text from her mom’s boyfriend, saying flames from the Detwiler Fire were bearing down on the town and that everyone was being evacuated.

Lee, 27, jumped in her car to race back home — the second half of a round-trip drive she has made six times a month for the past two years. However, this trip was different. At one point, Lee was forced to make a U-turn when flames began shooting up the hillside over Highway 140.

When she finally arrived, family members had gathered their belongings. But when decision time came, they opted to stay — and Lee climbed on the roof to lay out a hose.

They stayed through the week, without lights but using power from a portable generator to keep the water running and the food from spoiling in the refrigerator. By Friday, after the arrival of several fire crews — including one from South San Francisco — Lee’s spirits were lifted. And the family home was safe.

“I’m supposed to be back to work (in San Francisco) on Sunday, but I’m going to use sick time to be here,” Lee told us when we reached her by phone.

“There were a lot of people who have been devastated, and really we are very lucky,” Lee said. “It could have been a lot worse.”

Fly with me: There have been six reports of drones flying into San Francisco International Airport’s restricted airspace since the start of the year.

The latest incident occurred just before noon Monday, when pilots in two planes reported a 2-foot-wide drone hovering 3,500 feet over Hunters Point — well above the 400-foot legal limit.

One of the pilots, flying a Virgin America jet, put the drone at 6 miles north of SFO. The second, unidentified pilot spotted it at 4 miles out.

“Neither pilot reported the proximity of the drone to their aircraft,” Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor told us. He said “the sightings did not have any effect on operations.”

SFO spokesman Doug Yakel said none of the other incidents this year “resulted in delays or problems.”

And let’s hope it stays that way.

Play ball: While the Oakland A’s ponder a new stadium closer to the city center, team chairman emeritus Lew Wolff and his Southern California business partners have just won city approval to build an 18-story Marriott Hotel and Residence Inn downtown.

The $90 million-plus project at 1431 Jefferson St. would include 276 rooms, ground-floor commercial space and a five-level parking garage. It would be among the first major new hotels in Oakland in years.

“The hard work begins now,” Wolff told us, meaning his group must still finalize drawings and pull together the financing.

If all goes according to plan, construction could begin next spring.

Looks like Wolff will be leaving his signature in Oakland after all.

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