The House's average personal-office staffer made 11% more in the first quarter than a year before, according to a LegiStorm analysis.
House staffers working for personal offices brought home an average of $20,600 in the year's first quarter - 11% higher than the $18,600 that the average staffer made during the same pay period in 2022.
This analysis examines the mean pay increase across all full-time House staffers working for personal offices but does not reflect the distribution of those pay differences. These salary rates include any annual bonuses that were paid in Q1 and may not necessarily reflect the average staffer's pay rate for the entire year.
Republican staffers saw a bigger average Q1 pay bump than did their Democratic counterparts. The average Republican staffer made 12% more than in 2022 Q1. Democratic staffers saw a pay increase of 10% but still brought home higher average pay that quarter - $20,900, versus $20,300 for the average Republican.
In March 2022, Congress authorized an unprecedented 21% increase to the House's office budgets for that year, while a $45,000 minimum salary rate for all full-time House staffers went into effect that September. Both increases were intended to bolster staffer pay in hopes of attracting and retaining talent.
