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Who the House pays, by the names on its own payroll
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The House of Representatives publishes every payroll line it pays, by the name of the person paid, in its quarterly Statement of Disbursements. Added up by name over the calendar year, the House paid 18,441 printed names $1.05 billion in 2025. The median name was paid $45,756, and one in ten was paid $147,000 or more. 3,847 names were paid $100,000 or more, 1,761 were paid $150,000 or more, and 546 were paid $200,000 or more. The most paid under one name was $282,816.
546 House payroll names were paid $200,000 or more in 2025, against 0 in 2016
Printed names on the House's payroll whose lines in a calendar year add to $200,000 or more, every whole year the Statement of Disbursements files hold.
Source: The House’s Statement of Disbursements
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The figures
| Year | Names paid $200,000 or more | Names paid |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 0 | 11,634 |
| 2017 | 0 | 12,526 |
| 2018 | 0 | 11,814 |
| 2019 | 0 | 15,554 |
| 2020 | 0 | 14,129 |
| 2021 | 2 | 16,209 |
| 2022 | 157 | 16,953 |
| 2023 | 318 | 17,804 |
| 2024 | 435 | 17,703 |
| 2025 | 546 | 18,441 |
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Where the $200,000 names begin
In 2016, the first whole year in the files the House publishes, it paid 11,634 names $679 million, at a median of $48,500, and 0 of them were paid $200,000 or more. No name reached $200,000 in 5 whole years, through 2020. The chart counts them year by year. The Statement records what was paid and to whom; it does not record why, and nothing here says why.
Which offices pay them
The House's own program column divides its payroll. The Members' offices, which it prints as Official Expenses of Members, paid 9,566 names $616 million in 2025, 58.6% of everything paid under a name. The rest went to the committees, leadership, and the officers and their staff. Interns are paid from an allowance of their own: 6,125 names, $19.1 million between them, and most of the names at the bottom of the spread.
What a name is, and what it is not
A name here is a spelling, not a person. The House prints no identifier, so one person spelled two ways is two names, and two people who share a spelling are one. A name's year is every line printed under it across every office that paid it, including negative adjustments, so it is what the House disbursed under that name and not a rate of pay: a staff member who joined in the autumn has a part-year total. Every name has its own page, with each line as the House printed it.
What this cannot show
- A printed name is not a person. The House prints no identifier, so one person spelled two ways is two names here and two people who share a spelling are one. Every figure is by name, exactly as printed.
- A name's year is every line printed under it in the year's four quarters, across every office that paid it, including negative adjustments. It is what the House disbursed under that name, not a salary or a rate of pay, and a part-year name is part of a year.
- Interns are paid from their own allowance and are most of the names at the bottom of the spread. The lines the House prints with no name, or with an office's label where a name goes, are left out of every name figure and counted apart.
Sources
- U.S. House of Representatives — Statement of Disbursements (payroll), Chief Administrative Officer, U.S. House of Representatives. Public domain — U.S. Government work. Retrieved September 27, 2026.
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