{"id":200859,"date":"2026-03-21T23:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200859\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T23:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:36:07","slug":"how-much-do-state-lawmakers-in-florida-earn-yearly-what-to-know-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200859\/","title":{"rendered":"How much do state lawmakers in Florida earn yearly? What to know \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report is shedding some light on how much lawmakers in different states are making, and in Florida, that number is below the average salary.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/advisor\/business\/average-salary-by-state\/#average-salary-by-state-in-the-u-s-\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/advisor\/business\/average-salary-by-state\/#average-salary-by-state-in-the-u-s-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">National Conference of State Legislatures<\/a>, data from 2024 showed that Florida lawmakers had a base salary of $29,697.<\/p>\n<p>That number is lower than the state&#8217;s median household income, which is $62,990, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/advisor\/business\/average-salary-by-state\/#average-salary-by-state-in-the-u-s-\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/advisor\/business\/average-salary-by-state\/#average-salary-by-state-in-the-u-s-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Forbes<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from that salary, legislators are reimbursed 44.5 cents per mile when traveling to Tallahassee. <\/p>\n<p>NCSL said that legislatures paid their members differently depending on the state they live in. <\/p>\n<p>The following includes how lawmakers could be paid:<\/p>\n<p>Annual salary<\/p>\n<p>Daily<\/p>\n<p>Weekly<\/p>\n<p>Monthly<\/p>\n<p>No salary <\/p>\n<p>In their data, NCSL found that the highest paid state for lawmakers is New York, where they received a $142,000 annual salary. <\/p>\n<p>New Hampshire is the lowest, with lawmakers making $100 a year, and in New Mexico, they don&#8217;t get paid at all, but lawmakers get reimbursed 70 cents per mile. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A report is shedding some light on how much lawmakers in different states are making, and in Florida,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-200859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}