A large share of U.S. Congress are millionaires, but it’s highly unlikely that any of them achieved that level of net worth solely on a lawmaker's salary. While the base pay for a senator or representative is a respectable $174,000 per year, that is still nowhere near the kind of income that typically builds a seven-figure net worth on its own.
Rather, many of those elected officials have been extremely active in the market, logging hundreds if not thousands of trades each year.
