President Elect Trump To Fill 4,100 Federal White House Associated Jobs: President Elect Donald Trump will make a cool $400,000 a year after he is sworn in. He has to fill 4,100 jobs...

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

President Elect Donald Trump will make a cool $400,000 a year after he is sworn in. He has to fill 4,100 jobs, 1100 need Senate Confirmation. The Secretary of Defense makes $200,000 a year, the Secretary of State makes $186,000 a year, and the Supreme Court Chief Justice makes $223,500 per year. The others probably are less than $186,000 per year. Some people have quit their jobs making more money, so that they can work in the White House. It's a Power Thing to some. But looks good on a future Resume'. If you don't get your old job back.

philo Loc: philo, ca

I don't think Donald is doing it for the money. Heck he spent $100 million to get the job.

TheStarvingArtist

Obama got $3.2 million for his time in office?

philo Loc: philo, ca

plus millions in vacation travel money for self and family.

ricardo7 Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile

philo wrote:

plus millions in vacation travel money for self and family.

They all do. Obama was no different.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

FYI: Trump won't take a salary as president.

cpeter234 Loc: WA state Lost in South Boston, VA

I disagree, nobody ever spent money on vacations/travel like this 'first family.' I'm saying that as an opinion, not as an absolute fact because I've done no research. I would be curious to see actual comparisons if someone has those data available.

cpeter234 Loc: WA state Lost in South Boston, VA

rpavich wrote:

FYI: Trump won't take a salary as president.

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mas24 Loc: Southern CA

White House Staff Jobs do not need Senate Confirmation, but Cabinet Positions do. Background Checks are required for all Staff Jobs.

Flyerace Loc: Mt Pleasant, WI

The pensions are pretty good, too. Lots of hard work for many staffers, but they seem to love their jobs.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

cpeter234 wrote:

I disagree, nobody ever spent money on vacations/travel like this 'first family.' I'm saying that as an opinion, not as an absolute fact because I've done no research. I would be curious to see actual comparisons if someone has those data available.

It a President of the United States. It will aways cost lots of money. When the President Bush visited his home in Maine, there was a submarine and two fighter jets in the air the whole time he stayed there. There was even housing for the Secert Service on property. All that is hardly "free of cost". And that wasn't even for a vacation.

cpeter234 Loc: WA state Lost in South Boston, VA

wdross wrote:

It a President of the United States. It will aways cost lots of money. When the President Bush visited his home in Maine, there was a submarine and two fighter jets in the air the whole time he stayed there. There was even housing for the Secert Service on property. All that is hardly "free of cost". And that wasn't even for a vacation.

Sorry, I thought this discussion was about vacation/travel. 🙄My bad🙄

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

cpeter234 wrote:

Sorry, I thought this discussion was about vacation/travel. 🙄My bad🙄

No problem!

Just thinking of the cost of his visit home, a known location, I'm not not sure I want to know the cost of a vacation or foreign visit.

Beowulf Loc: Aquidneck Island, RI

For anybody concerned about the cost of presidential vacations, go to Google and check out the total number of days that the 535 members of Congress actually work in a legislative year (don't choke when you learn how few days there are in the planned legislative calendar for any year). Multiply the number of members by their annual salaries, add to that their supplementary accounts, their paid aides, travel expenses, etc. Nice work, if you can get it!

Then take a couple aspirin.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

Beowulf wrote:

For anybody concerned about the cost of presidential vacations, go to Google and check out the total number of days that the 535 members of Congress actually work in a legislative year (don't choke when you learn how few days there are in the planned legislative calendar for any year). Multiply the number of members by their annual salaries, add to that their supplementary accounts, their paid aides, travel expenses, etc. Nice work, if you can get it!

Then take a couple aspirin.

Thank you very much! Now I have a real and painful headache! And now I may need to take Valium along with the asprin!