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Cole, Sheila A

What this page is, and what it is not

The Senate publishes no identifier for the people it pays, only the name as each office’s payroll prints it. So the lines under one printed name may belong to more than one person, and one person may appear under two spellings. This page lists every line printed under this exact name and does not decide who is the same person.

A line is a disbursement: what an office paid for the period printed beside it, or for the half-year where none is printed. For part of a half-year it is part of a year’s pay, so no amount here is an annual salary, and none is a half-year’s pay doubled.

It is one chamber of one branch: the Senate’s own offices, committees and officers, as the Secretary of the Senate publishes them every six months. The lines are the full-time payroll; the benefits each office also pays are printed without names and are not here.

The Senate recorded $254,499 in payroll lines under the name Cole, Sheila A from 2024 to 2026, according to the Secretary of the Senate.

Every payroll line the U.S. Senate printed under this name in the half-yearly Report of the Secretary of the Senate, 2024–2026.

Under this name, in the Senate’s record

$254,499.33
Disbursed: Every line below, added together: 7 lines, 2024–⁠2026.; 5
Office payrolls: Offices, committees and officers, each under one funding line, whose payroll printed this name.; 4
Half-years: Reports of the Secretary of the Senate with a line under this name.

Each half-year, against every name in it

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Payroll lines under Cole, Sheila A, by half-year, with the name's rank among every name in that report's payroll
Half-year	Disbursed	Lines	Rank	Where it stands
October 2025–March 2026	$80,518.22	2	1,218 of 8,354	Higher than 85% of the 8,354 names in the October 2025–March 2026 payroll.
April–September 2025	$80,231.17	2	1,388 of 9,913	Higher than 85% of the 9,913 names in the April–September 2025 payroll.
October 2024–March 2025	$37,499.94	2	4,319 of 8,852	Higher than 51% of the 8,852 names in the October 2024–March 2025 payroll.
April–September 2024	$56,250.00	1	2,795 of 9,763	Higher than 71% of the 9,763 names in the April–September 2024 payroll.

A rank is this name’s total for the half-year against the total of every printed name in the same report’s payroll, largest first. It compares amounts disbursed, which depend on the period each line pays for.

Every line

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Every payroll line the Senate printed under Cole, Sheila A, newest report first
Half-year	Office	Funding line	Title as printed	Period as printed	Amount
October 2025–March 2026	Senator Joni Ernst	Funding Year 2026	SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR	The half-year	$15,518.26
October 2025–March 2026	Small Business and Entrepreneurship	S.RES. 94C (119TH)	SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR	The half-year	$64,999.96
April–September 2025	Senator Joni Ernst	Funding Year 2025	SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR	The half-year	$17,731.21
April–September 2025	Small Business and Entrepreneurship	S.RES. 94B (119TH)	SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR	The half-year	$62,499.96
October 2024–March 2025	Senator Joni Ernst	Funding Year 2025	SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR	FROM JAN. 1	$6,249.96
October 2024–March 2025	Small Business and Entrepreneurship	S.RES. 94B (119TH)	SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR	FROM JAN. 1	$31,249.98
April–September 2024	Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs	S.RES. 59C (118TH)	PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEMBER	TO AUG. 30	$56,250.00

Sources

Report of the Secretary of the Senate, payroll lines — Secretary of the Senate · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved October 6, 2026

Compiled automatically from Report of the Secretary of the Senate, payroll lines by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved October 6, 2026