Pelosi announces new rule that lets House staff make more money than members of Congress
August 13, 2021 | Kay Apfel
House staffers will now be eligible to earn higher salaries than their elected member in a move by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to help retain top talent in the U.S. House of Representatives, where salary discrepancies are notoriously horrible thanks to a pay freeze that has been in effect since 2009.
The move will increase the maximum pay rate for staffers by 15 percent, from $173,900 to $199,300 annually.
“This order will help the Congress recruit and retain the outstanding and diverse talent that we need, as it also helps ensure parity between employees of the House of Representatives and other employees of the federal government,” Pelosi wrote on Thursday in a letter to her House colleagues.
For years, staffers running the gamut from junior roles to Chiefs of Staff have been poached from their respective offices and grueling work on the Hill to go work in more enticing roles that offer a much more lucrative salary in lobbying firms or the administration.
Under the new rules however, senior staffers could make more than their boss whose salary is capped at $174,000. The new cap on staff salaries will not mean an automatic raise for all staffers, but it will give members of Congress the option to do so.
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