Congressional Payday

CONGRESSIONAL T: STBD $31,438 PAYDAY Legend $30,447 Median |he Twenty-seventh Amendment prohibits Congressman $29,236 any law that increases Median or decreases the salary of congressmen during their current term. The amendment was originally submitted in 1789, but was killed and buried by congress multiple times over the course of 200 years. The final push to ratify the amendment started when a University of Texas at Austin student, Gregory Watson, uncovered it in 1982. $27,978 $27,215 Salary of a United States $26,730 $18,569 $26,292 Congressman in 2009 $17,994 $174,000 $175,000 $25,737 $17,594 1523,523 Yearing that a paycheck well over 5 times $17,049 I larger than the normal $150,000 $15,300 U.S. worker's would not cover their cost of living, congress passed the Ethics Reform Act of 1989. The law gives congressmen $125,000 an automatic percentage increase (determined by a com- plex formula of economic indica- tors) in pay every year unless they vote to deny it (accepted 13 times, denied 7 times from 1990 to 2010.) $13,870 $13,138 $11,801 $100,000 $9,566 $75,000 $7,878 T $400 Median he Twenty-seventh Amendment was salary in the United States in 2008 $350 $4,733 $8,079 passed in 1992, and despite being at odds with cost of living adjustments the Supreme Court has not heard a case regarding rising congressio- $50,000 $300 $3,646 $31,438 $2,458 $300 $25,000 $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 $1,318 $320 $1,742 nal salaries. Since the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 was passed a congressmen's salary has increased by $84,500, while the median U.S. salary has increased by $14,822. source: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/-saez/TabFig2006prel.xls note: Median signifies middle value in data set, places less significance on outliers. Average signifies total of values divided by number of values. CONGRESSIONAL T: STBD $31,438 PAYDAY Legend $30,447 Median he Twenty-seventh Amendment prohibits any law that increases Congressman $29,236 Median or decreases the salary of congressmen during their current term. The amendment $27,978 $27,215 was originally submitted in 1789, but was killed and buried by congress multiple times over the course of 200 years. The final push to ratify the amendment started when a University of Texas at Austin student, Gregory Salary of a United States $26,730 $18,569 $26,292 Congressman in 2009 $17,994 $174,000 $175,000 $25,737 Watson, uncovered it in 1982. $17,594 523,523 earing that a paycheck well over 5 times $17,049 I larger than the normal $150,000 $15,300 U.S. worker's would not cover their cost of living, congress passed the Ethics Reform Act of 1989. The law gives congressmen $125,000 an automatic percentage increase (determined by a com- plex formula of economic indica- tors) in pay every year unless they vote to deny it (accepted 13 times, denied 7 times from 1990 $13,870 $13,138 $11,801 $100,000 $9,566 to 2010.) $75,000 $7,878 T $400 Median he Twenty-seventh Amendment was passed in 1992, and despite being at odds with cost of living adjustments the salary in the United States in 2008 $350 $4,733 $8,079 $50,000 $300 $3,646 Supreme Court has not heard a case regarding rising congressio- $31,438 $2,458 $300 $25,000 $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 $1,318 $320 $1,742 nal salaries. Since the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 was passed a congressmen's salary has increased by $84,500, while the median U.S. salary has increased by $14,822. source: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/-saez/TabFig2006prel.xls note: Median signifies middle value in data set, places less significance on outliers. Average signifies total of values divided by number of values. CONGRESSIONAL T: STBD $31,438 PAYDAY Legend $30,447 Median he Twenty-seventh Amendment prohibits any law that increases Congressman $29,236 Median or decreases the salary of congressmen during their current term. The amendment $27,978 $27,215 was originally submitted in 1789, but was killed and buried by congress multiple times over the course of 200 years. The final push to ratify the amendment started when a University of Texas at Austin student, Gregory Salary of a United States $26,730 $18,569 $26,292 Congressman in 2009 $17,994 $174,000 $175,000 $25,737 Watson, uncovered it in 1982. $17,594 523,523 earing that a paycheck well over 5 times $17,049 I larger than the normal $150,000 $15,300 U.S. worker's would not cover their cost of living, congress passed the Ethics Reform Act of 1989. The law gives congressmen $125,000 an automatic percentage increase (determined by a com- plex formula of economic indica- tors) in pay every year unless they vote to deny it (accepted 13 times, denied 7 times from 1990 $13,870 $13,138 $11,801 $100,000 $9,566 to 2010.) $75,000 $7,878 T $400 Median he Twenty-seventh Amendment was passed in 1992, and despite being at odds with cost of living adjustments the salary in the United States in 2008 $350 $4,733 $8,079 $50,000 $300 $3,646 Supreme Court has not heard a case regarding rising congressio- $31,438 $2,458 $300 $25,000 $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 $1,318 $320 $1,742 nal salaries. Since the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 was passed a congressmen's salary has increased by $84,500, while the median U.S. salary has increased by $14,822. source: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/-saez/TabFig2006prel.xls note: Median signifies middle value in data set, places less significance on outliers. Average signifies total of values divided by number of values. CONGRESSIONAL T: STBD $31,438 PAYDAY Legend $30,447 Median he Twenty-seventh Amendment prohibits any law that increases Congressman $29,236 Median or decreases the salary of congressmen during their current term. The amendment $27,978 $27,215 was originally submitted in 1789, but was killed and buried by congress multiple times over the course of 200 years. The final push to ratify the amendment started when a University of Texas at Austin student, Gregory Salary of a United States $26,730 $18,569 $26,292 Congressman in 2009 $17,994 $174,000 $175,000 $25,737 Watson, uncovered it in 1982. $17,594 523,523 earing that a paycheck well over 5 times $17,049 I larger than the normal $150,000 $15,300 U.S. worker's would not cover their cost of living, congress passed the Ethics Reform Act of 1989. The law gives congressmen $125,000 an automatic percentage increase (determined by a com- plex formula of economic indica- tors) in pay every year unless they vote to deny it (accepted 13 times, denied 7 times from 1990 $13,870 $13,138 $11,801 $100,000 $9,566 to 2010.) $75,000 $7,878 T $400 Median he Twenty-seventh Amendment was passed in 1992, and despite being at odds with cost of living adjustments the salary in the United States in 2008 $350 $4,733 $8,079 $50,000 $300 $3,646 Supreme Court has not heard a case regarding rising congressio- $31,438 $2,458 $300 $25,000 $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 $1,318 $320 $1,742 nal salaries. Since the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 was passed a congressmen's salary has increased by $84,500, while the median U.S. salary has increased by $14,822. source: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/-saez/TabFig2006prel.xls note: Median signifies middle value in data set, places less significance on outliers. Average signifies total of values divided by number of values. CONGRESSIONAL T: STBD $31,438 PAYDAY Legend $30,447 Median he Twenty-seventh Amendment prohibits any law that increases Congressman $29,236 Median or decreases the salary of congressmen during their current term. The amendment $27,978 $27,215 was originally submitted in 1789, but was killed and buried by congress multiple times over the course of 200 years. The final push to ratify the amendment started when a University of Texas at Austin student, Gregory Salary of a United States $26,730 $18,569 $26,292 Congressman in 2009 $17,994 $174,000 $175,000 $25,737 Watson, uncovered it in 1982. $17,594 523,523 earing that a paycheck well over 5 times $17,049 I larger than the normal $150,000 $15,300 U.S. worker's would not cover their cost of living, congress passed the Ethics Reform Act of 1989. The law gives congressmen $125,000 an automatic percentage increase (determined by a com- plex formula of economic indica- tors) in pay every year unless they vote to deny it (accepted 13 times, denied 7 times from 1990 $13,870 $13,138 $11,801 $100,000 $9,566 to 2010.) $75,000 $7,878 T $400 Median he Twenty-seventh Amendment was passed in 1992, and despite being at odds with cost of living adjustments the salary in the United States in 2008 $350 $4,733 $8,079 $50,000 $300 $3,646 Supreme Court has not heard a case regarding rising congressio- $31,438 $2,458 $300 $25,000 $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 $1,318 $320 $1,742 nal salaries. Since the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 was passed a congressmen's salary has increased by $84,500, while the median U.S. salary has increased by $14,822. source: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/-saez/TabFig2006prel.xls note: Median signifies middle value in data set, places less significance on outliers. Average signifies total of values divided by number of values. CONGRESSIONAL T: STBD $31,438 PAYDAY Legend $30,447 Median he Twenty-seventh Amendment prohibits any law that increases Congressman $29,236 Median or decreases the salary of congressmen during their current term. The amendment $27,978 $27,215 was originally submitted in 1789, but was killed and buried by congress multiple times over the course of 200 years. The final push to ratify the amendment started when a University of Texas at Austin student, Gregory Salary of a United States $26,730 $18,569 $26,292 Congressman in 2009 $17,994 $174,000 $175,000 $25,737 Watson, uncovered it in 1982. $17,594 523,523 earing that a paycheck well over 5 times $17,049 I larger than the normal $150,000 $15,300 U.S. worker's would not cover their cost of living, congress passed the Ethics Reform Act of 1989. The law gives congressmen $125,000 an automatic percentage increase (determined by a com- plex formula of economic indica- tors) in pay every year unless they vote to deny it (accepted 13 times, denied 7 times from 1990 $13,870 $13,138 $11,801 $100,000 $9,566 to 2010.) $75,000 $7,878 T $400 Median he Twenty-seventh Amendment was passed in 1992, and despite being at odds with cost of living adjustments the salary in the United States in 2008 $350 $4,733 $8,079 $50,000 $300 $3,646 Supreme Court has not heard a case regarding rising congressio- $31,438 $2,458 $300 $25,000 $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 $1,318 $320 $1,742 nal salaries. Since the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 was passed a congressmen's salary has increased by $84,500, while the median U.S. salary has increased by $14,822. source: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/-saez/TabFig2006prel.xls note: Median signifies middle value in data set, places less significance on outliers. Average signifies total of values divided by number of values.