How much do you think they should be paid in salary?
Today the number is $116,000 per year (less 18% for newcomers)?
How do you expect to attract competent legislators? Who would want the job.
Note that there are more than 5,000 prison guards in California making more than $100K.
They work overime.
Same old argument. We can't attract 'good' people unless we pay them more. They are overcompensated as it it is. Why are the willing to spend so much to get the job if it isn't worth it? Better to have people more interested in public service than how much they can soak the system for. Make the compensation $1. I doubt there will be any shortage of qualified applicants.
I'd take it, and I know many who others who would. And I would be willing to take a qualifying test to do it (unlike many many incumbents).
I could get a lobotomy and still outperform the current Dimwit majority leader half asleep.
Have a uniform qualifying test, if it's such a critical issue.
You know making change, computing what 2/3 is, how many planets are there and the ever challenging --- English language.