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Small fish in D.C. pond turn to big fish back home

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 2, 2020

Many staffers work for Congress in the hopes of climbing the ranks in Washington or move to lucrative lobbying gigs. But for others, working for a member of Congress is a stepping stone to a career working for their home-state legislatures.

At least two percent of state legislative staffers across four states have prior experience working for members of Congress (124 out of 5,941 staffers), according to LegiStorm data, which now tracks state-level staff. The data currently covers staff of legislators, committees and leadership offices working for the California, New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan legislatures, with the remaining states to be added over the next few months.

Many who have made the move held lower-level positions with Congress and have since moved in to positions of power in state legislatures. The most common job title for a congressional-field-representative-turned-state-staffer is chief of staff.