This week the House posted for the first time an electronic version of their master expense report. The report details the pay of everyone employed by Congress, from the Members of Congress to their staff, and other staff in Congress.
The folks over at Sunlight Foundation have out of the House’s 3,300-page report. We can now see average salaries for different types of staff. Chiefs of staff top off at an average approximate salary of $120,052, with legislative correspondents — the staff members that read constituent mail — coming in near the bottom at $31,951.
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Staffers should be paid more than a measley $31,951. Cost of living in DC is horrendous. Is pay kept low because these jobs are regarded as stepping-stones? Does this encourage staffers to do good job?
Why should they be paid more to read mail – Congressmen should read their own mail! Keep them doing THEIR job and stop running around country serving special intersts and groups.
Congressmen receive more mail in a day than any one human could read — it would not leave much time for actual legislating. Remember that a congressman represents up to 700,000 people, and a senator up to 35 million, and many of those individuals are writing in to Congress.
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