The Power Tree

Rank-and-file members of Congress have earned a $174,000 base salary — unchanged since 2009. Beyond salary, members receive a federal pension (vesting after 5 years of service), federal health coverage, and an official allowance to run their staff and offices. Open any card for that office's full pay detail.

The Power Tree is a public-interest reference for everyday citizens, students, journalists, and researchers who want to understand who represents them and where the money comes from — without paying for a lobbying database. Every member card pulls together their office, committee seats, salary, campaign-finance links, and biographical sources in one place, then points you straight to the official record so you can check the work yourself.

We are deliberately conservative with numbers. Campaign-finance and personal-finance figures are reported only when they trace to a primary public filing such as the FEC or an official financial-disclosure source, and we name that source on the card. When the public record is incomplete — which it often is for newer members — we leave the field empty rather than estimate. The Power Tree is not a campaign, PAC, lobbying shop, or news publisher, and it takes no position for or against any official or party. It exists to make information that is already public easier to find and read.