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The HillClimbers Index measures staffing capacity, stability, and structure across every House office — providing a data-driven framework for understanding how congressional teams are built to perform.

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When Interns Become Infrastructure: How the Congressional Workforce Is Changing

This guest post by former CAO director of strategy and HillClimbers Founder Omar Awan meaningful shifts in how congressional managers are trying to stretch their employment budgets.

By Omar Awan
For First Branch Forecast

New data may change what we know about staffing, stability, and capacity on Capitol Hill

"One of the really interesting features I see in this is a career tracker. People who might want to become a Hill staffer and what a career on the Hill might look like."

By Terry Gerton
Federal News Radio

Can Knowledge be power? For salaries on the Hill, maybe

“Tools like [𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘅] could help Hill bosses monitor how inviting they look to job seekers, while also giving staff a window into which offices have high turnover or other potential red flags.”

By Nina Heller

Too Controversial’: Congress Isn’t Planning to Give Itself a Raise — No Matter How Much Lawmakers Want One

By Riley Rogerson, Ursula Perano and Em Luetkemeyer

Our Founder, Omar Awan, spoke on MRA formulation and the need to increase the clerk hire!

Along with Daniel Schuman of the American Governance Institute, Dan Lips from FAI, Danielle Stewart of POPVOX, and so many more!

Opinion:
Want to cut government waste? Pay congressional staffers more.

Written by Dr. John Lenczowski is founder, president emeritus and chancellor of the Institute of World Politics.

Staff and Member pay are no longer linked, opening the pathway to improve staff pay.

Prior to 2023, no House employee could be paid more than a Member of Congress...

After Policy Changes, Junior-Level staffers earn more

Typical staff assistant on Capitol Hill no longer makes less than a living wage, but more reforms are needed to attract and retain staffers from all socioeconomic backgrounds...

As budget cuts loom, group warns of effects on House staff pay

High turnover and brain drain on the Hill are possible effects of steep reductions...

Survey: Budget boost raised Hill pay, but disparities remain

Half of respondents more likely to keep working in House, Senate after increases...

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