---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 5122"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "5122"
heading: "Personal services in office of Speaker; payments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/5122"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — House of Representatives Leadership"
  - "Subchapter II — The Speaker"
---

# §5122. Personal services in office of Speaker; payments


There shall be paid from the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives until otherwise provided by law, for personal services in the office of the Speaker of the House, an additional basic sum of $10,000 per annum.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–730, § 103, Oct. 2, 1962, 76 Stat. 693; Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 204(14), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1732.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 74–1 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is based on House Resolution No. 487, Eighty-seventh Congress, Jan. 10, 1962, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 87–730.

### Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “applicable accounts of the House of Representatives” for “contingent fund of the House”.