Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 7th of May 2018 to The Sounding Line.
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The following map, from HowMuch.net, shows the salary paid to the Governor of every state in the US. Ranging from a high of $187,818 for Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf (D) to a low of $70,000 for Maine’s Paul LePage, governor’s salaries vary by a surprisingly wide margin.
There does not appear to be a huge partisan divide in pay, though the average salaries of governors in states currently led by a Democrat are somewhat higher. As HowMuch.net notes:
“The average Democratic governor’s salary is $146,221 compared to $128,327 on the Republican side. As a matter of fact, 7 out of the 10 highest paid governors are Democrats, even though there are just 16 Democratic governors in the country compared to 33 Republicans.”
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