---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 303"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "303"
heading: "Dual compensation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/303"
units:
  - "Chapter 10 — Classification of Employees of House of Representatives"
---

# §303. Dual compensation


For the purposes of applicable law relating to the payment to any [employee](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) subject to the House [Employees](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) Schedule or the House Wage Schedule of compensation from more than one civilian office or position, the rate of basic compensation of each [employee](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) subject to any such schedule shall be held and considered to be that rate which, when increased by additional compensation then currently authorized by law for House [employees](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) generally, equals or most nearly equals the per annum rate of compensation of such [employee](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) under such schedule.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–652, § 14, Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1084.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1965, see section 17 of Pub. L. 88–652, set out as a note under section 291 of this title.