Bonuses and payouts boost salaries of top-earning lobbyists

Analysis by CEO Update identifies the 100 federally registered lobbyists with the highest take-home pay. Base and bonus pay increased by a median of 5.7 percent from the year before, and that doesn’t include some of the big special payouts from retirement plans. “Generally speaking, the higher up you are, the faster [salary is] increasing,” said Brian Vogel of Quatt Associates.