The Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff – a report required by Congress listing titles and salaries of every White House Office employee.
OK I had this whole post I was going to type about how the President should be a little bit more sympathetic to all those who are unemployed and pay his employees wages similar to those they would be paid outside the White House. I mean does he really need to pay $172,000 to 22 assistants? Does he really need 22 assistants?
While it’s still true I don’t think anyone needs 22 assistants, I have thought about it and I would never want to work at the White House. Although I am sure it is an an honor to some, those employees are over-worked and their personal lives undoubtedly suffer for it.
The jobs are demanding and stressful and I would never want to do them, but someone has to. So you know what, if you have to follow the President around everywhere he goes and cater to his every whim, then you deserve $172,000 a year.
