Today the new President of the Ohio Senate Keith Faber announced he would be doing some restructuring: going from 13 committees to 17 committees and 3 finance subcommittees.

With 23 GOP members of the Ohio Senate, this means nearly all of them will now be Chairpersons or at least Vice-Chairpersons.  It also means a pretty good bump in salary.

According to LSC, here’s what Senators make (in addition to their normal salaries) for leadership roles on a committee:

Chairpersons – $ 6,500
Vice-Chairpersons – $ 5,000
Ranking Minority Members – $ 5,000

And here’s what they make for finance […]