The taxpayer bill for two indicted City Hall aides who Mayor Martin J. Walsh has insisted on paying has soared to more than $200,000 and will continue to mount as the two staffers await a trial that’s been delayed until next year.

Tourism chief Kenneth Brissette and intergovernmental affairs director Timothy Sullivan have been receiving their full salaries since being charged a year ago with extortion and conspiracy, even though state law allows for them to be suspended from their jobs.

By the time Brissette and Sullivan’s trial starts next January, taxpayers will have shelled out close to $350,000 in salary and benefits, even though the two have done no work since being charged.

Sullivan earns $122,089 annually and Brissette’s salary is $101,719 a year.

A spokeswoman for Walsh said Brissette and Sullivan continue to stay on paid leave while awaiting trial.

But there have been other cases where Boston and other municipalities have moved to suspend without pay indicted employees. In 2014, the Boston Fire Department put a district chief on unpaid leave after he was indicted on charges of theft.

Last year, a Quincy police lieutenant was suspended without pay after his indictment for defrauding the city by lying about his work hours, according to reports. And Dighton suspended its fire chief without pay after he was charged with using funds to pay for his wardrobe.

A state law, in fact, allows for indicted government employees to be suspended without pay. If the employees are subsequently cleared they would be entitled to receive back pay for the time they were under suspension.

Walsh’s mayoral opponent, City Councilor Tito Jackson, sharply criticized the decision to keep paying the two aides, saying it amounts to special treatment for the loyal staffers.

“He has an option to actually save the taxpayers money and be fiscally responsible and he is not choosing that option,” Jackson said in an interview. “It seems as if the mayor is willing to play by different rules for those who are members of his inner circle. Is he going to extend this policy for all city employees?”

Walsh in the past has said he’s “disheartened” by the indictments, and at one point described Brissette as a “good worker.” But he has also denied that the city has had a policy of demanding vendors use union workers.

“Certainly I’m bothered by this. Tim has a wife and a young baby at home — a 2-year-old I believe now,” Walsh said after Sullivan’s arrest nearly a year ago. “So I feel bad for what’s happening here, but certainly it’s something that I don’t stand for.”

In court papers, prosecutors have argued that both Brissette and Sullivan were acting on behalf of the mayor’s office when they allegedly threatened to withhold permits for the Boston Calling music festival in 2014 unless the festival hired union stagehands.

Jackson said the money taxpayers are shelling out for the salaries could go to better uses, like funding schools that have been cut.

“The issue is this is all at the discretion of Mayor Walsh,” he said. “There’s a question of fiscal judgment.”