Government and Adminastration

So this week in career class we did the government and adminastration careers and i chose general and operations manager and a legislator and i'm suppose to find things they have in common which that's going to be very hard for me because i didnt find anything on a legislator, like the legislator doesn't even have a specific education requirement or knowledge, skills, and abilities. But what really ticks me off is that the U.S wages for it is 19,000$ and in new york it goes to 80,000$ so what i think it is, you don't education but get paid a pretty decent amount of money, i'm just mad of what our economey is like, It's just not fair that someone that actually does something like a butcher that makes 24,000$ and someone that talks about things about our country makes 80,000$ it's just a little unfair.