---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 6131"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "6131"
heading: "Appointment of employees by Senate Majority and Minority Leaders; compensation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/6131"
units:
  - "Chapter 61 — Senate Leadership"
  - "Subchapter III — Majority and Minority Leaders and Whips"
---

# §6131. Appointment of employees by Senate Majority and Minority Leaders; compensation


Effective April 1, 1977, the Majority [Leader](/usc/2/6136.md?p=b-1) and the Minority [Leader](/usc/2/6136.md?p=b-1) are each authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of such [employees](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) as they deem appropriate: Provided, That the gross compensation paid to such [employees](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) shall not exceed $191,700 each fiscal year for each [Leader](/usc/2/6136.md?p=b-1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–26, title I, May 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 80.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 61h–4 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is from the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1977.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Managing Political Fund Activity

Pub. L. 116–94, div. P, title XVII, § 1701, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 3220, provided that: “The Majority Leader and the Minority Leader may each designate up to 2 employees of their respective leadership office staff as designees referred to in the second sentence of paragraph 1 of rule XLI of the Standing Rules of the Senate.”

### Increases in Compensation

Increases in compensation for Senate officers and employees under authority of Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970 (Pub. L. 91–656), see Salary Directives of President pro tempore of the Senate, set out as notes under section 4571 of this title.