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Caught Our Eye

House offices are spending less of their annual budgets but a higher proportion on staffer pay

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 11, 2023

The House continues to put a higher proportion of its official expenses toward staffer pay, even as personal offices struggle to use up their official budgets.

In the first half of the year, the average personal office used 38.78% of its total annual budget, according to a LegiStorm analysis of the House's latest spending data. Of those expenses, 79% went toward staffer compensation. Staffer pay accounted for 77% and 74% of all personal-office expenses in 2022 and 2021, respectively.

Despite staffer pay taking up a higher proportion of funds, offices are using a smaller proportion of their budgets than they did before the 2022 Members' Representational Allowance increase. Including expenses that were reported late, offices spent an average of 89% of their budgets in 2022 and 95% in 2021. This year, the average personal office is on track to use only 78% of its annual budget - leaving the average office with more than $430,000 in unspent funds that could have gone toward greater staffer compensation.

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