---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 5302"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "5302"
heading: "Salaries payable monthly after taking oath"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/5302"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — House of Representatives Members"
  - "Subchapter I — Member Pay"
---

# §5302. Salaries payable monthly after taking oath


Each [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) and Delegate, after he has taken and subscribed the required oath, is entitled to receive his salary at the end of each month.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 39.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 35 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

R.S. § 39 derived from Res. Mar. 29, 1867, No. 18, 15 Stat. 24.