La. Stat. tit. 13 § 2488.3
The city court judge shall receive the salary, compensation, and fees provided in R.S. 13:1874, except that the judge shall receive a minimum annual salary of twelve thousand dollars, payable monthly. Said salary shall be paid by the governing authorities of the city of Franklin and the parish of St. Mary in a proportion the population of the city of Franklin within Ward Three of St. Mary Parish and the population of the unincorporated portions of Ward Three of St. Mary Parish bear to the total population of Ward Three of St. Mary Parish as determined and adjusted from time to time by the decennial United States census. The governing authorities of the city of Franklin, the parish of St. Mary, or either of them, may pay such additional salary as they may from time to time deem proper. The judge's salary shall not be decreased during the judge's term of office.
La. R.S. § 13:2488.3