AWOL status, or other dishonorable status while on active military service is not eligible for Differential Pay. PERF means the Public Employees' Retirement Fund. SPD means the State Personnel Department. State Pay means the employee's current wages. TRF means the Teachers' Retirement Fund.
And while Americans' median wealth is down 43% since 2007, Congress members' net worth has jumped 28%. (Some of the lawmakers in Congress change from year to year. Congress also has some uber-wealthy members. Representative Darrell Issa once again topped the charts with a net worth of $448.4 million in 2013.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, median household net worth in the U.S. was $68,828 as of 2011. The median of all Congress members' average net worth, according to CRP, was slightly more than $1 million as of 2012. That means Congress members' median net worth is more than 14 times as large as the median household income (in 2012 dollars).