The highest paying job in state politics is the governor of Pennsylvania: $187,818 a year. The lowest? State representative in New Hampshire: Just $100 a year.
Unsurprisingly, wages for state politicians vary a lot across the country. Chris Kolmar at Zippia put himself through the long slog of finding how much every governor and state representative in the country is paid, then adjusting wages for the cost of living.
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