---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 4574"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "4574"
heading: "Limit on rate of compensation of Senate officers and employees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/4574"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — Congressional Pay and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter III — Senate"
  - "Part A — Amount and Type"
---

# §4574. Limit on rate of compensation of Senate officers and employees


No officer or [employee](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) of the Senate shall receive pay for any services performed by him at any rate higher than that provided for the office or employment to which he has been regularly appointed.


## Source credit

(Aug. 5, 1882, ch. 390, § 1, 22 Stat. 270.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 61 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.