$400,000 a year

plus benefits


http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/0726nj_wh_dollar.htm

9/20/2005 2:47:15 AM

plus bribes

9/20/2005 2:50:23 AM

I would be interested to see what sort of scale the executive department is working at...

The GS maxes out at ~135,000 + benefits... in the DC area.

Doesn't seem very fair.

9/20/2005 3:06:20 AM

yeah but Clinton earns more for one 1-hour speech

9/20/2005 10:03:42 AM

hey i took 9th grade civics too

or actually 6th grade us history

9/20/2005 10:10:30 AM

Dude thats a formality at this point.

No President in the last two centuries has really needed the money.

9/20/2005 10:18:09 AM

in 6th grade i think they only earned 200,000

i could be wrong
or maybe we didn't go to 6th grade at the same time...

9/20/2005 10:18:13 AM

they did only make 200k back then. they bumped it up at the end of clinton or beginning of dubya, i forget.

9/20/2005 10:41:40 AM

Quote :

"Executive Branch President: $400,000; $50,000 expense account; $100,000 nontaxable for travel; $19,000 official entertainment account; free housing Retired president: $150,000 pension; plus $150,000 to maintain staff Former first lady: $20,000 Vice president: $208,100; $10,000 expense account; free housing Presidential Cabinet member (i.e. secretary of defense, attorney general, etc.): $157,000 Legislative Branch Speaker of the House of Representatives: $208,100 Senate president pro tempore: $180,100 Senate and House majority and minority leaders: $180,100 Other senators and representatives: $162,100 Judicial Branch Supreme Court chief justice: $208,100 Supreme Court associate justices: $199,200 Circuit judges: $171,800 District judges: $162,100 "

[Edited on September 20, 2005 at 11:16 AM. Reason : interesting]

9/20/2005 11:11:34 AM

hey i took 9th grade civics too

or actually 6th grade us history

9/20/2005 12:16:19 PM

that kid gets so much under the table .... hes got billions

9/20/2005 12:17:13 PM

what does an active first lady get? i didnt realize it was a compensated position.

Quote :

"Former first lady: $20,000 "

[Edited on September 20, 2005 at 12:25 PM. Reason : ]

9/20/2005 12:24:55 PM

and it will keep going up. your point esgargs?

[Edited on September 20, 2005 at 1:08 PM. Reason : ]

9/20/2005 1:06:40 PM

how much was spent on the election campaign?

9/20/2005 5:53:41 PM

DUE TO AGE

9/20/2005 5:59:28 PM

Yeah I also remember it being 200k

9/20/2005 6:06:05 PM

^^^
I heard something around 1.2 billion for the presidential election '04
and a little under 3 billion on congressional elections '04

Total to around 4 billion total, which is a good 1 biillion dollars more then prewvious elections...

Which is a little confusing to me because the new BCRA (2002) bans "soft" money contributions. That's like 1/2 a billion dollars.

9/20/2005 6:28:00 PM

Quote :

"EhSteve: how much was spent on the election campaign?"

$texas.

If you mean total, and are only talking about the viable presidential campaigns (not 527s): $655,272,885.

9/20/2005 6:33:52 PM

i dont get what the big deal is.......he is the leader of the #1 country in the world

9/20/2005 6:37:36 PM

and he gets paid less than even shitty rappers

9/20/2005 8:50:31 PM

How much does Halliburton pay him?

9/21/2005 7:58:44 PM

Well, no president should take the job for the pay. They should make enough money to keep them in nice suits, but money should not be the attraction to the job. If you think about it, presidential salary isn't really that important anyway. I mean he gets free transportation anywhere he goes, I'm sure they have a shit ton of maids in the White House cleaning up after him and doing his laundry, cooks making him food whenever he wants, etc.

9/22/2005 12:04:07 PM

if you ask a kid if they'd rather grow up to make half a million dollars a year or be president

i bet most the kids would say president

9/22/2005 12:06:14 PM

I'd take the 1/2 mil any day, assuming that was just given to me and I didn't have to work...

9/22/2005 12:17:03 PM

well yes
i think under those conditions
i'd take the half mill too

9/22/2005 12:23:52 PM

.5 mil for me. Fuck the public spotlight.

9/22/2005 12:56:46 PM