---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 5304"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "5304"
heading: "Salaries of Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners elected for unexpired terms"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/5304"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — House of Representatives Members"
  - "Subchapter I — Member Pay"
---

# §5304. Salaries of Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners elected for unexpired terms


The salaries of Representatives in Congress, Delegates from Territories, and Resident Commissioners, elected for unexpired terms, shall commence on the date of their election and not before.


## Source credit

(July 16, 1914, ch. 141, § 1, 38 Stat. 458.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 37 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.