---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 4581"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "4581"
heading: "Aggregate gross compensation of employee of Senator of State with population under 5,000,000"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/4581"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — Congressional Pay and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter III — Senate"
  - "Part A — Amount and Type"
---

# §4581. Aggregate gross compensation of employee of Senator of State with population under 5,000,000

- (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of [section 4575(d)(1) of this title](/usc/2/4575.md?p=d-1), and except as otherwise provided in subparagraph (C) of such subsection (d)(1), the aggregate of gross compensation paid [employees](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) in the office of a Senator shall not exceed during each fiscal year $1,012,083 if the population of his [State](/usc/2/4556.md?p=1) is less than 5,000,000.
- (b) [Subsection (a)](#a) shall take effect October 1, 1991.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–90, title I, § 5, Aug. 14, 1991, 105 Stat. 450.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 61–1c of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is from the Congressional Operations Appropriations Act, 1992, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1992.