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February 26, 2008
Lawmakers and staff salaries

Legistorm is an informative web site because it allows everyone from journalists to the curious citizen to check out what congressional staffers get paid. The site compiles data on congressional offices, which is all publicly available but hard to get to unless you are in Washington.

For example, Rep. Tom Allen's chief of staff, Mark Ouellette, earned $31,250.01 from April through July in 2007. Rep. Mike Michaud's former chief of staff, Peter Chandler, earned $29,250, for the same quarter.

On the Senate side, Sen. Olympia Snowe's chief of staff, John Richter, earned $75,000 for a six month period from July through Sept. last year while Sen. Susan Collins' chief of staff Steve Abbott earned $80,329.

On Tuesday, Legistorm announced that it is posting financial disclosure reports for staffers.

Posted at 12:12 PM

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I've lived in D.C. and I don't know how anyone lives in that city making less than six figures. It's as bad a living in Boston, except as a Congressional staffer you also have to pay for alot of your own travel costs back and forth to your boss's native state. No wonder three quarters of them end up as lobbyists. They need to pay off the bills they accumulate while working in Congress. The guys in Tom Allen's and Michaud's office must be sleeping in homeless shelters. I don't know how they do it?

Posted by Gerry
February 27, 2008 09:04 AM

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