More than 219 officials in the National Congress receive salaries higher than the salary of the 205 deputies and senators of the Republic, reported this Sunday The Mercury.
In the Senate, for example, the highest salary goes to Julio Cámara, lawyer and chief secretary of committees, who receives a little more than $17 million pesos monthly, followed by Ximena Belmar, lawyer and secretary of committees, with $16,014,226.
In the Lower House, the general secretary Miguel Landeros receives a salary of $19,454,212, while the deputy secretary Luis Roja earns $17,912,351.
Meanwhile, at the Library of National Congress, Guido Williams, head of Parliamentary Technical Advisory, receives a salary of $12,879,344; and Alejandro Turis, head of the Department of Legislative and Documentary Services, earns $12,832,369 pesos monthly.
Legislative employees who earn high salaries have diverse professions. One of the most repeated in the group is that of lawyers. But among the officials there are also engineers, a philosopher, educators, a communicator, among others.
Currently, the allowance of senators and deputies reaches $7.3 million. For this reason, several of them have taken it upon themselves to highlight that their salaries are much lower than those of some congressional officials.
