Legistorm: Transparency's Sidekick

Due to user demand, we have added a small new feature to our website: salary totals by year.

On staffer pages, this means that you can see the total paid in any one calendar year or fiscal year (unfortunately, the Senate reports their salaries in six-month semesters beginning Oct. 1, so only fiscal year reporting is available).

You can see a sample staffer page here: http://www.legistorm.com/person/Huma_Abedin/2909.html. Note that the annual amounts can be misleading. They do not represent the annual rate of pay. Instead, they merely reflect all gross salary payments made in that year (as always, taxes and other deductions are included but not broken out and expense reimbursements are not included). As a result, it is important to see if the aide worked for the full period or merely a fraction of the time.

We have also provided annual tallies on member pages, but these tallies include all staff salaries from the year. A member's page looks like this: http://www.legistorm.com/member/526/Rep_Anthony_Weiner.html.

Please let us know what other features small and large that you want to see from us. As always, we are working on many other site improvements that will provide a much richer user experience.