Next door in California, Dion Nissenbaum of Knight-Ridder Newspapers analyzed the salaries of state legislative staffers and discovered that despite a dire financial situation, “lawmakers last year rewarded loyal aides with generous raises and six-figure salaries that have driven legislative spending to record levels.” More than 150 of 2,200 legislative aides earned six figures in 2002, and 30 make more than $125,000 — the average legislator’s salary. Another analysis, by the Sacramento Bee’s Jim Sanders, found that 80 of the state Assembly’s “highest-paid staffers received salary increases while legislators grappled during the past year with the worst budget crisis in state history.”
Calif. legislative aides well rewarded
Posted on April 21st, 2003
Posted in Government (federal/state/local) 
