Posted on 05/06/2022 9:59:35 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday announced that the House will now require staffers to get paid a minimum salary of $45,000.
“I am pleased to announce that, pursuant to the statutory authority of the Speaker in 2 U.S.C. 4532, the House will for the first time ever set the minimum annual pay for staff at $45,000,” Pelosi wrote in a “Dear Colleague” letter, first reported by Punchbowl News.
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Frankly, you still can’t live in D.C. on $45,000/year.
To keep up with inflation, it should be at least one hundred and eleventy billion dollars
That’s around panhandling level in DC…
Was she losing their votes too?
True. Its a very high cost of living area.
Mainly due to relentless government spending.
21.63/hr. based on 2080hrs/yr.
Are staffers the same as an intern?
Are these college students?
chump change in dc
Thats true. I dont know how many work year round though.
When I lived in DC three or four would share an apt. But the apt they shared wasn’t cheap because the location they chose. Dupont Circle, Waterfront etc.
Hate to say but in this Pelosi is probably right.
$45k is $3750 per month or around $22 per hour and that’s about $2,000 after taxes and deductions.
It’s also the same starting pay as McDonald’s is paying in most DC locations.
Hard to attract decent staff if they can make more at McD’s and not get molested by their Democrat bosses.
Something doesn’t sound right......I worked for the DoD for over 30 years....I was making better than that a loooong time ago and I was just a low level worker bee.
At retirement I was making almost twice that.
I turned down an offer in dc for that money in 1992.
way low
That may be true, but that would only impact the working class clerks and lower level functionaries the Democrats believe are inferior because they lack education. So even if they can't afford to live on that...it's no skin of the backs of the D.C. elites themselves, is it?
Why don’t they get the same insider trading stocks that she gets?
It seems odd to me as well.
Pay off their college loans too!
And give them reparations!
They take care of themselves, with our money.
I worked as a Congressional staffer from 1984 to 1986. They originally offered me $17,000 a year but I negotiated to $18,000.
Adjusted for inflation, $18,000 is about $49,000 in today’s dollars.
If Biden's puppet masters aren't stopped $45,000 a year won't be enough to live on Tobacco Rd.
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