Mayor de Blasio’s office is defending the $353,000 salary the city will pay new schools chancellor Alberto Carvalho — which is about $120,000 more than outgoing Chancellor Carmen Fariña’s base pay.

Eric Phillips, de Blasio’s spokesman, pointed out that when you factor in the 74-year-old Fariña’s annual $211,000 pension — which she was able to pocket while also collecting her salary under a generous city regulation for older workers — Carvalho’s haul is actually a bargain.

“Extremely misleading. HE disclosed it & negotiated for that #. It was his number for us to meet. We didn’t peg for it because we knew. Huge difference. Also: 2014 v 2018. Also, Carmen Fariña has a $211k pension in her package. She takes home nearly $100k MORE than new chancellor,” Phillips tweeted Thursday morning.

Fariña was paid $233,430, while collecting a pension of $211,000 for a total of $440,430.

Carvalho ran Miami’s public schools system for the past decade and made just under $353,000.

Fariña headed up the Big Apple’s public school system — the largest in the US — for four years after coming out of retirement in 2013.

Hizzoner himself pulls down $258,750 a year — plus a host of other benefits including the use of Gracie Mansion as his family residence, which allows him to rent out his house in Park Slope.