• Corkyskog
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    1 year ago

    I mean the median income is like 90-110k depending on how you classify DC, thats hardly a huge pay bump for having to deal with national nonsense and the stress of the job. In my opinion minimum should be 250k. If we want to be real about rooting out corruption and voting for the public interest we need to pay them the appropriate wage to do so. We are talking about some of the most important people in the country, and they are making way less than easier jobs in other industries, given the education.

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      1 year ago

      That may be a good idea.

      However, you claimed that OP would probably not want to run because of the compensation, as in, they wouldn’t be able to afford living there on that salary. $174k is plenty to live in DC (as you pointed out, it’s kind 50% higher than the median income), so in terms of being able to live and work there, the income is plenty. It may not be enough to discourage corruption among other members of Congress, but that’s not necessarily a concern here (OP didn’t seem to be worried about becoming corrupted).

      Compensation is set by Congress, so if OP found compensation issues leading to corruption, OP could be part of that solution.