Salaries of House and their staff members
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 2:37 pm
Going to this site
http://www.legistorm.com/salaries/house_bonuses.html
I found that the average salary of a congressional staffer is about 80k (that graph shows amount per quarter, so you have to add 4 quarters). The salary of a congressman is $170k.
From some other site, I saw that the average number of staffers per congressman is 22.
So, each congressman costs us about $1.93 million. That times 435 equals $839.55 million
If we were to increase the size of the house to 6000, then the price of JUST the congressional salaries would be $1.02 BILLION. So, I don't see how this would be financially equivalent without reducing the compensation of our congressmen. It may make sense to reduce it anyway, as they are representing less citizens?
If you changed the salary amount to be equivalent to what is currently being spent, that would give each congressman $139,916. And, that's including their staffers!
http://www.legistorm.com/salaries/house_bonuses.html
I found that the average salary of a congressional staffer is about 80k (that graph shows amount per quarter, so you have to add 4 quarters). The salary of a congressman is $170k.
From some other site, I saw that the average number of staffers per congressman is 22.
So, each congressman costs us about $1.93 million. That times 435 equals $839.55 million
If we were to increase the size of the house to 6000, then the price of JUST the congressional salaries would be $1.02 BILLION. So, I don't see how this would be financially equivalent without reducing the compensation of our congressmen. It may make sense to reduce it anyway, as they are representing less citizens?
If you changed the salary amount to be equivalent to what is currently being spent, that would give each congressman $139,916. And, that's including their staffers!