From the UK Daily Mail:
"According to the White House’s latest salary list, no-one would be receiving a pay rise this year - not even Mr Obama himself.
"As a result, this gives a pretty good indication on what the incoming White House staffers are getting in their pay checks.
"The White House has an annual payroll of nearly $39 million.
"It is required to divulge the salaries of its employees - except the office of the Vice resident, which is technically an arm of the Senate.
"Mr Obama himself earns $400,000 a year (provided by Congress) and he employs 469 people at his home/office.
"In 2010 Mr Obama capped the salaries of any employee making more than $100,000 a year, and salaries range from $21,000 to just above $172,000 a year.
"Mr [Bill] Daley [Chief of Staff] and Mr [David] Plouffe will be among 23 top aides - including the press secretary, chief speechwriter, White House counsel and senior advisers - earning the top full-time staff salary of $172,200.
"By comparison, Vice President Joe Biden makes roughly $230,000 a year, according to Senate records.
"Most other White House staff - including staff assistants, press aides, analysts and researchers - earn between $40,000 and $60,000."
The most powerful office in the world, no one is getting a pay raise this year.
The highest possible salary for a staff member? $172,000
The irony here is that $172,000 is what a department head makes in Miami-Dade County, where 1,000 employees earned over $100,000.
We all know that Manager George Burgess makes $422,000, more than the President. Burgess' cadre of bureaucrats also earn over the $172,000 that the top staff members make at the White House.
And bankrupt JMH wants to pay their next CEO nearly a million dollars!
The difference is that while working in the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime honor, working for Miami-Dade County is a great way to survive a recession, while keeping a high six-figure salary intact.
Time for Miami-Dade County bureaucrats to wake up and notice that taxpayers are no longer willing to finance their lavish salaries and retirement packages.
