Record · Person

Shaffer, Thomas M.

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 $155,167 in payroll lines under the name Shaffer, Thomas M. from 2025 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, 2025–2026.

Under this name, in the Senate’s record

$155,166.55
Disbursed: Every line below, added together: 2 lines, 2025–⁠2026.; 2
Office payrolls: Offices, committees and officers, each under one funding line, whose payroll printed this name.; 2
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 Shaffer, Thomas M., 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	$97,999.93	1	491 of 8,354	Higher than 94% of the 8,354 names in the October 2025–March 2026 payroll.
April–September 2025	$57,166.62	1	2,809 of 9,913	Higher than 71% of the 9,913 names in the April–September 2025 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 Shaffer, Thomas M., newest report first
Half-year	Office	Funding line	Title as printed	Period as printed	Amount
October 2025–March 2026	Appropriations	Funding Year 2026	PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEMBER	The half-year	$97,999.93
April–September 2025	Appropriations	Funding Year 2025	PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEMBER	FROM JUN. 16	$57,166.62

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