Is $82k a reasonable LA salary?

For a third-year House LA with a health and tax portfolio, $82k is within market and toward the middle-to-upper end of the House personal-office range, though it would read low on the Senate side or on a committee.

The variables that matter: chamber, the Member's seniority and committee assignments, whether the office has a published pay scale, and how in-demand your portfolio is. Health, tax, and defense pay a premium because those staff get recruited downtown.

If you want to negotiate, do it with comparable data and a scope argument — what you own now versus what you owned when you were hired — rather than tenure alone.