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The House employs more non-white staffers than ever - but their pay has yet to reach parity with their white counterparts.

Asian-Americans/Pacfic Islanders are the lowest paid racial group among House Republicans; Hispanic staff are the lowest paid among House Democrats. The average staffer from each of those groups average 91 percent of what their party pays white staffers - an average annual pay gap of about $5,000, according to LegiStorm data.

Some of that disparity stems from the fact that non-white staffers are disproportionately based out of district offices, which tend to pay less than working for a D.C. office does. Non-white district staffers make 96 percent compared to white district staffers.

Compared to their white counterparts, non-white residents of districts tend to live in more urban areas, where the cost of living is higher. That means that the average non-white district staffer should theoretically make more money than the average white district staffer. Instead, they average $2,000 less each year.

In D.C., non-white House staffers are paid 98 percent that of white staff, or about $1,000 less per year.

The pay gap holds true even when comparing many of the same job titles and considering whether staffers work in Washington or the district. White D.C. chiefs of staff average $3,900 more than non-white chiefs; district chiefs average $1,400 more when white.

LegiStorm is unable to analyze current Senate salaries due to a delay in the Report of the Secretary of the Senate. The Secretary of the Senate was required by law to publish its most recent by November 2021 and has not yet done so.

A House Ways and Means Committee attorney has left for Morgan Health, JPMorgan's health-care arm.

Orriel Richardson made the move this month and is now a Morgan Health vice president. JPMorgan launched the venture, which focuses on improving employer-sponsored health-care plans, last May.

Richardson comes from the Ways and Means Committee's Health Subcommittee, where she was Democratic counsel. She's also worked for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid's Services Innovation Center and for the D.C. Department of Health Care Finance.

A GOP House aide is harvesting a new career with pesticide advocate CropLife America.

Thomas Mills is now director of federal government relations for the trade group. CropLife America disclosed spending nearly $1.7 million on its federal lobbying program last year.

Mills spent the last year as a legislative assistant to Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee. Mills has also worked for then-Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and for Rep. Trent Kelly (R-Miss.).

An Internet Association lobbyist has returned to Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) following the lobbying group's dissolution.

Bo Morris, who came back to Neguse this month, is now senior adviser to the congressman. He was deputy chief and legislative director during his first stint with the office, leaving last summer for a gig as the Internet Association's director of federal-government affairs.

Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay helped to found the Internet Association in 2012. The group lobbied on a host of Internet-related issues until shutting down at the end of last year.

An aide to Rep. Ann Kuster (D-N.H.) is making waves with a new government-affairs job.

Will Pisano moved to the National Hydropower Association this month. He's now government-affairs director for the trade group, which represents the water-power industry. NHA lobbies mostly on energy issues.

Pisano worked his way up in Kuster's office to become a senior legislative assistant. Before that, he worked for her congressional campaign.