---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 4502"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "4502"
heading: "Appropriation of funds for compensation of Members of Congress and for administrative expenses at levels authorized by law and recommended by the President for Federal employees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/4502"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — Congressional Pay and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
  - "Part A — Amount and Type"
---

# §4502. Appropriation of funds for compensation of Members of Congress and for administrative expenses at levels authorized by law and recommended by the President for Federal employees


Effective beginning with fiscal year 1983, and continuing each year thereafter, such sums as hereafter may be necessary for “Compensation of [Members](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2)” (and administrative expenses related thereto), as authorized by law and at such level recommended by the President for Federal [employees](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) for that fiscal year are hereby appropriated from money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Such sums when paid shall be in lieu of any sums accrued in prior years but not paid. For purposes of this subsection, the term “[Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2)” means each [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, the Delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam, Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, and the Vice President.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–51, § 130(c), Oct. 1, 1981, 95 Stat. 966.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified as a note under section 31 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.