They’re in love, but not in the money.

The gal pal of former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford laments that her beau’s salary as a congressman is a measly $174,000.

“Everybody has a fantasy that governors or lawmakers make a lot of money,” Argentinian temptress Maria Belen Chapur told the Spanish-language Web site Infobae.

“I’m going to take away that fantasy because a governor in the United States makes $108,000 per year, and from that, you have to take out 33 percent in taxes . . . “It’s not even enough to pay for private school for his children,” she said of her boyfriend, who left his wife and four kids for her after their affair surfaced in 2009.