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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

How do your state legislators' salaries match up?

State lawmakers in California get a higher salary than any other state, while lawmakers in New Mexico don't receive any salary, but are paid $159 per day in session, Jake Grovum reports for Stateline. The base salary in California is $90,526, while lawmakers in 24 states, many of them mostly rural, make less than $20,000, and lawmakers in 11 states -- Maine, Nevada, Kansas, Montana, Texas, South Dakota, Kentucky, Wyoming, Alabama, New Hampshire and New Mexico -- are paid less than $10,000. (Read more)

Lawmakers are only considered full-time in 10 states -- California, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Wisconsin, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Lawmakers in 23 states spend two-thirds of their time on the job and in the remaining 17 states they work one-fourth of the time. (Read more)

How much do the lawmakers in your state earn? (Stateline map. For an interactive version click here)

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