Full-time, part-time and somewhere in between.

• Position: STATESTATS - Legislabors - Brief article

NCSL uses three criteria to determine if a legislature is full-time, part-time or somewhere in the middle: time lawmakers spend on the job, staff size and pay. Populous states are often "full-time" by all three measures: big staffs, big pay and many hours on the job. On the other end of the spectrum, legislators in small states usually have few staff, low pay and spend only half...