Staffer Deets!
Congressional Staff are, historically, among the hundreds! Using data from the US House of Representative Statement of Disbursements, staff tenure is estimate by examining the start and end dates of their paychecks.
Data are from disbursements beginning in 2017.
Focus is on Rep. EHN.
EHN Staffers
EHN Staff Tenure
Length of line is tenure/time in position
Dashed lines are Staff Assistants
On average, this Congressperson’s staff held 3.9 positions and averaged 336.2 days of employment. See variation by staff type.
| DESCRIPTION2 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caseworker | Director | Events Coord | Intern | Legis Assoc | Legis Asst | Other | Staff Asst | |
| daystenure | ||||||||
| Mean | 690.0 | 734.5 | 543.5 | 41.1 | 279.5 | 447.8 | 305.1 | 297.3 |
| npositions | ||||||||
| Mean | 7.4 | 6.3 | 6.5 | 1.5 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
How days tenure varies by staff type…
Roughly speaking, EHN days tenure are fewer on average, by about two months (~60 days).
| ehn | ||
|---|---|---|
| EHN | Other | |
| daystenure | ||
| Mean | 487.3 | 540.9 |
| Std. dev. | 494.2 | 535.2 |
| Unw. valid N | 47.0 | 24293.0 |
