Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s staff earned an average of $92,454 in 2024, which is 33% higher than the average Senate staff member, according to Legistorm, a website that tracks congressional staff movements.
Murkowski’s staff earns more than any other staff in the Senate, the website reported. Sen. Dan Sullivan’s staff only earns 13% more than the average.
Legistorm reports that staff members for Florida’s two U.S. senators anchor the bottom of the pay scale, earning 22.4% less than the Senate average.
Former Sen. Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State, paid the lowest average salary of any senator, with his staff earning $45,000 on average, 35% below the chamber average and less than half what Murkowski pays her staff.
Read the report at Legistorm.com.
Murkowski has said she does not agree with President Donald Trump’s efforts to reduce government, saying on the record that reducing federal expenses is fine but he is not going about it the right way; she did not offer a suggestion about what the right way would be.
Earlier this week she indicated on X that cuts to a few dozen federal forestry and park jobs in Alaska will do more harm than good.
