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The members of the US Congress, as of January 1, 2008, are paid $169,300 per year. Click on the "Congressional Salaries" link below to read about the history of the salaries of the members of Congress, which started out in 1789 at $6 per day.

the brake down is:

365 days in a year each day they are making $463.84

in a 8hr day they are making $57.98 a hour

it has been 219years they have jumped from $6 a day to $463.84 a day

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