It’s one of the truisms of politics: Elected officials get all the glory for the big policy wins and legislative changes that shape every area of public life, from schools and social programs to taxes and transit.

But they wouldn’t be nearly as effective without the legions of legislative staffers who do the hard work to make it happen.

They help draft legislation and make the numbers add up. They’re the ones who help you when you’re trying to navigate the state government bureaucracy. And those big and well-staged press conferences and rallies? That’s often their handiwork, too.

And according to a new survey, legislative staffers in Massachusetts are deeply unhappy about their wages and working conditions and they have more than one eye on the exits.

Consider just a few of the top-lin

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