The US Congress minimum salary is $173,000 annually, they get healthcare benefits and a pension at 62. They are also treated to aides, car service, protection, and are courted by special interest groups. I feel there salary should be reduced and made adjustable not set. They should be paid $60k annually the first four years and an additional 5k each additional year above the first four. Congress should not be a cushy life long job. It was meant to serve the US.
The Center for Responsive Politics' and The Globalist reported there were 253 millionaires in Congress in 2011. That is about 47% of the Congress, only about 9% of the rest of the US population are millionaires. The median income for a member of Congress is $939,505.
The median US household income is $68,828 per the Census Bureau.



