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This report provides historical tables on the rate of pay for Members of Congress since 1789; details on enacted legislation with language prohibiting the automatic annual pay adjustment since the most recent adjustment; the adjustments projected by the Ethics Reform Act as
20 gru 2004 · CRS Report 97-1011, Salaries of Members of Congress: Recent Actions and Historical Tables, by Ida A. Brudnick, has additional information on the rate of pay for Members of Congress since 1789; recent proposals to change Member pay; the adjustments projected by the Ethics Reform Act as compared with actual pay adjustments; details on enacted ...
27 cze 2024 · First, the report briefly summarizes the current salary of Members of Congress; limits or prohibitions on their outside earned income, honoraria, and tax deductions; options for life and health insurance; and retirement benefits.
This chart shows historical information on the salaries that members of the United States Congress have been paid. [ 1 ] The Government Ethics Reform Act of 1989 provides for an automatic increase in salary each year as a cost of living adjustment that reflects the employment cost index. [ 2 ]
19 mar 2021 · According to the report, Congress has not actively voted nine times to “raise their own salaries,” in the last 18 years, as the post claims. Rather, the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 set up an...
23 mar 2022 · The annual salary of congressional lawmakers has been $174,000 since 2009, according to a Congressional Research Service report. The speaker of the House earns $223,500 annually while the...
General Schedule (GS) Pay Raise History. Each year congress decides whether or not to raise the General Schedule (GS) pay scale, which applies to nearly 3 million federal employees across the 15 Federal Departments and numerous independent agencies. Pay raises are typically 1-3%, although pay rates may be frozen during difficult economic times.
