I used the year Joe Biden entered the Senate as a freshman Senator (1973) as a beginning in order to chart Senate salaries and the number of times the august body of meaningless blab has unilaterally voted themselves pay raises.
I say unilaterally because naturally the House of Reps agreed to the raises since they also voted themselves raises in the same years.
It appears pay raises are the one thing CONgress takes a bipartisan approach to.
A few things in the source chart made total accuracy impossible to ascertain. Such as the month of year the senate would vote themselves raises and beginning of fiscal year.
But the numbers are close enough for government work.
Unfortunately the source chart I used ends with the year 2008.
No matter, that was Joe's last year in the Seanate before stumbling into the Vice Presidency.
I'm disheartened enough by the following numbers that I am not going to delve into his current salary and perks.
Any volunteers to total up the amount of money Joe Biden has collected in his +40 years at the public teat?
1973 - 1975 - $42,500 per year
1976 - $44,600
1977 - 1979 - $57,500 per year
1980 - 1982 - $60,662.50 per year
1983 - $69,800
1984 - $72,600
1985 - 1986 - $75,100 per year
1987 - 1989 - $89,500 per year
1990 - $98,400
1991 - $101,900
1992 - $129,500
1993 - 1997 - $133,600 per year
1998 - 1999 - $136,700 per year
2000 - $141,300
2001 - $145,100
2002 - $150,00
2003 - $154,700
2004 - $158,100
2005 - $162,100
2006 - 2007 - $165,200 per year
2008 - $169,300
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