Where can I find the salary and benefits information for "all" public
officials? (President, congress, etc...)

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Clarification of Question by timsorenson-ga on 25 Jun 2003 05:41 PDT

What I am looking for at this time is all Federal elected officials.
These have to be passed by congress and in documents somewhere but I
can not seem to locate them.

Greetings Timsorenson:

The salaries are:

SCHEDULE 6--VICE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

(Effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period
  beginning on or after January 1, 2002)

Vice President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $192,600
Senators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  150,000
Members of the House of Representatives. . . . . . . . . . .  150,000
Delegates to the House of Representatives. . . . . . . . . .  150,000
Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . .  150,000
President pro tempore of the Senate. . . . . . . . . . . . .  166,700
Majority leader and minority leader of the Senate. . . . . .  166,700
Majority leader and minority leader of the House
  of Representatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  166,700
Speaker of the House of Representatives. . . . . . . . . . .  192,600

[From http://www.opm.gov/oca/compmemo/2001/2001-15A1.txt where other
salaries are also listed]

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From the site http://www.ipl.org.ar/ref/QUE/FARQ/pensionFARQ.html
you'll find pay outlines and I found links there leading to PDF
documents with salaries that you may download from
http://www.opm.gov/oca/payrates/index.asp.

See also http://www.opm.gov/oca/compmemo/2003/2003-03.asp

and

Presidential and Vice Presidential Salaries - Exclusive of Perquisites
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedprssal.html

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From http://www.ipl.org.ar/ref/QUE/FARQ/pensionFARQ.html
"As with salaries, the rules governing the retirement benefits of the
Vice President, Cabinet members, members of Congress and other federal
officials are different than those that apply to the President, with
benefits laid-out in the rules of the Federal Employees Retirement
System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). Thus,
their retirement benefits (including pensions) will vary from
individual to individual, depending on factors such as years of
service. Also, former Vice Presidents (unlike former Presidents) do
not receve Secret Service protection. Information on rules governing
the retirement benefits of members of the federal judicial system can
be found here in 28 USC Sec. 627, and info on FERS in 5 USC CHAPTER
84. If you find the pages from the U.S. Code a little dense, try these
Office of Personnel Management pages: Federal Employees Retirement
System (http://www.opm.gov/retire/html/retirement/fers.html) and the
Civil Service Retirement System
(http://www.opm.gov/retire/html/retirement/csrs.html)."

In this paragraph on the site are live links to the various documents.

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Regarding pensions, an interesting article titled "Strange End To
Strange Election: Inauguration Could Bring More than $13 Million in
Tax-Funded Pensions for Clinton, Gore - Payouts Believed to Be Two
Largest Lifetime Amounts in Fed. Gov’t History" is located at
http://www.ntu.org/news_room/press_releases/pr_011101.php3

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I located the majority of these resources from links appearing in the
article "Salaries and Retirement Benefits of U.S. Presidents and other
Federal Government Employees"

The FAQs explanation:

"Example Questions That Can Be Answered Using This FARQ 

What is the current salary of the U.S. President? 
What is the pension amount given to former Presidents and Vice
Presidents?
How much does a (cabinet member, senator, representative, federal
judge) make now? After they retire?"

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Should you require clarification of any of the links or infromation I
have provided, please request it and I will be happy to respond.


SEARCH STRATEGY:

"salary and benefits" federal government
"salary and benefits" federal elected officials
"elected officials" benefits federal

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Clarification of Answer by journalist-ga on 25 Jun 2003 09:36 PDT

ADDENDUM: The link to "Salaries and Retirement Benefits of U.S.
Presidents and other Federal Government Employees" is located at
http://www.ipl.org.ar/ref/QUE/FARQ/pensionFARQ.html

My apologies for the omission of it in my answer.

Best regards,
journalist-ga

Outstanding performance! You provided me with more links and
information that I would have thought based on the price.

You might want to define what "all" means.  
For that matter, you might want to define official also.

Do you want only elected officials? 
How bout appointed positions like supreme court justices?
State officials like govenors?
Local positions like sheriff?
Ambasadors?
That could be litterally hundreds of thousands of 
different salary levels.

You might want to clarify.

I aim to please, Timsorenson!  Thank you for your rating, comments and
added generosity!  :)