Another good reason to vote for change in New York: The stage is set for the nation’s highest state lawmakers’ pay to go higher still ahead of the January kickoff of the next legislative session.

Base pay already stands at $142,000 a year, but state pols plainly take a page from Gordon “Greed is good” Gekko, at least when it comes to bringing home their personal bacon.

After years of griping, especially from the members of the Legislature’s Democratic majorities, pay hikes are virtually on autopilot — with a scheme meant to avoid the politicians even having to vote on their raises.

The members of the state Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation are appointed by the governor, the majority leaders of the Assembly and state Senate and the state’s chief judge (who’s chosen by the gov with Senate consent): That is, the panel is chosen by the folks whose pay it “governs.”

It meets every four years for a low-profile hearing, then votes out its recommendations.

At last month’s hearing, only two people testified; the commission must release its final plan by Nov. 15 — safely after Election Day, but as long as possible before anyone has to face the voters again.

It’s expected to “advise” hiking the salaries of the nation’s already highest-paid governor and state lawmakers, plus other statewide elected officials and agency heads.

And the increases take effect automatically unless the Legislature votes to cancel them.

Pro-pay-hikers want you to know that many of those agency heads have lower salaries than New York City officials with similar job titles, which begs the question of whether Gotham pays too much, or (quite possibly) demands more from its commissioners and so on.

It’s certainly odd to boost compensation for the Department of Environmental Conservation honchos right after L’Affaire P’nut.

Mind you, this isn’t the only way these pols’ pay gets boosted: After various lawsuits upended a commission raise scheme in 2019, the Democratic leaders of the Legislature in 2022 convened a December special session to pass an added hike, which Gov. Hochul meekly signed off on.

“The base salary for New York’s part-time state legislators is higher than the total incomes of most of the families they represent,” notes EJ McMahon, a Manhattan Institute adjunct fellow.

But it’s about to go higher, after you’ve voted.

Even as the state’s Democratic bosses — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Gov. Kathy “Voting Republican is anti-American” Hochul — refuse to give New York voters the results they want on crime and the economy, they’re taking care of themselves and their fellow lawmakers . . . with as little democracy as possible.

Keep that in mind this Election Day — and everyone that follows.