Married couples with kids bank more money than their childless counterparts.

Promoting statehood in D.C. can be a thankless job, and now one D.C. legislator wants to make a little more worth the while of the people elected to do it.

Members of Congress don’t have to worry about gender-based pay disparities when it comes to their own salaries, but their staffs do. National Journal reports that when it comes to what staffers make, there are some big differences.

Curious what certain federal government employees make? Now it’s easy to find out.

Although the cost of college keeps rising, it’s probably not because of what professors earn. A survey of academic salaries shows that faculty members’ pay is growing slower than the rate of inflation.

It’s tough to measure how much being the chancellor of the District’s public school system is actually worth, but Kaya Henderson’s current salary seems to offer a hint: $275,000 a year, plus a $12,500 signing bonus.

The flirtations were intense and the relationship rocky, but the District’s affair with Sulaimon Brown and the wide-ranging investigation he provoked came to a quick and quiet end today.

Let’s say you’re the mayor of a large city that is currently facing a big deficit. Additionally, your first few months in office were stained by several scandals involving the hiring of your allies to high-paying positions. Sounds like the perfect time to ask the city council for some executive pay raises, right?

After a report released by Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh noted that eight of Mayor Vince Gray’s political appointees were making more money than legally allowed, the Mayor said that he’d be cutting back. So how much is Gray cutting from the city payroll, all told? $18,203 per year — which works out to about $1,516 per month.

Photo by Ryan Holloway Adding to the deluge of summertime city rankings, a study on CEO compensation has found that local bigwigs are overpaid compared to those in other cities and despite company performance. The Washington Business Journal reports that the study by BDO USA, which looked at the top 25 performing companies in each city, ranks the D.C.-area second in compensation (salary, bonuses, stock options, etc.) raises for CEOs, 37 percent from 2008…