text: Actually, Bob, I think they're effectively the Board of Directors of one of the larger natural resource extraction firms in the World, so they're pretty dramatically underpaid.   The reason there is so much outrage about Legislative salaries and benefits over the last few years is that there's been so few Democrats elected that they don't get to share.   Well, that and Alaska's well ingrained class warfare game; we cheat the other guy and pass the savings on to you.