Do the nation’s elected mayors earn their pay? It probably would help to know how much they’re getting paid in the first place, wouldn’t it? The Denver Business Journal obliges this week with a new analysis of mayoral salaries in 60 U.S. cities, including Denver.

The American City Business Journal (DBJ’s parent company) breakdown reveals some significant disparities. The research included 41 mayors who make more than $100,000 a year-seven pull down more than $200,000 annually-as well as some large-city mayors who make less than $40,000 a year.

The upshot for Colorado? Denver’s Mayor Michael Hancock makes $172,000 a year, ranking him 15th for pay on the survey. Not too shabby considering Denver is ranked 20th in population and 22nd in budget on the same list of cities.

Not on the list was Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers. Maybe he should be; serving as chief exec of Colorado’s No. 2 city has in fact become a significant calling since citizens there changed their charter in 2010 to move from a council-dominant form of local government to one that answers to a “strong mayor.” Under that new model, Suthers, elected in 2015, pretty much runs the show and is ultimately responsible for the city’s day-to-day operations.

Suthers’s pay, as noted not long ago in The Colorado Springs Gazette: $103,370.

Among other findings of interest that do appear in the analysis:

San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee outranks all of his peers with a budgeted salary of $289,000 per year. San Fran ranks 12th nationally in population and fourth in annual spending among all U.S. cities analyzed.

New York, the nation’s largest city ranked by population and budget, pays Mayor Bill de Blasio $225,000 per year, fourth best among his peers.

At the low end of the pay scale, North Carolina mayors Allen Joines (Winston-Salem) and Nancy McFarlane (Raleigh) are on track to respectively earn $13,000 and $20,000 this year, a byproduct of their cities’ council-dominated styles of government.