Contractor Pay Caps Re-emerge in Senate
March 16, 2012
Reviving an ebbing debate over taxpayer-funded reimbursements for contractor executive pay, two senators on Friday introduced a bill to lower the cap for such payments to $400,000 and widen its applicability from the current top five highest-paid employees to a contractor's entire staff.
Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, introduced the Common-Sense Contractor Compensation Act (S. 2198) to "build on" a measure that passed in December 2011 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act that extended the current reimbursement cap -- $693,951 -- to cover all defense contractor employees.