This blog has routinely mentioned Robert Gibbs. As the White House press secretary, Gibbs regularly speaks on behalf of the president. How much does one get paid to do this? According to an annual report released by the White House July 1, Gibbs makes $172,200 a year.
This report, mandated by Congress, provides a list of salaries for every White House staffer. It’s always an interesting document to look at. Gibbs, along with well known names like Valerie Jarrett (senior advisor to the president) and Rahm Emanuel (chief of staff) are among the highest paid figures.
More often the report mentions people serving in positions like staff assistant, scheduler, operator and correspondence assistant. These staffers, often young people working long hours, earn incomes in the $30,000 to $50,000 a year range.
Interesting note – Jason Green, deputy associate counsel, makes $95,000 a year. Actually, this is probably only of interest to me, because I went to high school with Jason.
Check out the report online (PDF 29 pages) and review the information yourself.
Comments (13)
Geanna
2 July 2009 at 14:18 EDT
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And what is your salary?
Michelle Austein Brooks
America.gov Staff
2 July 2009 at 16:16 EDT
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About $89,000 a year. As a U.S. government employee, my salary information is also in the public record.
kayongo ronald
Location: uganda
4 July 2009 at 11:00 EDT
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it was not bad for the obama
kreditinform
Location: NY
5 July 2009 at 09:38 EDT
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$89,000 a year!? Uhhh
Arafat Rahman
Location: http://arafatbd.net
5 July 2009 at 12:39 EDT
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Very interesting.
But I guess a U.S. government employee does not have only one income source.
sdefrawi
Location: http://www.zizinya.com
5 July 2009 at 21:09 EDT
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$172 K seems like alot to dodge questions! And not very well I might add.
Mark Croatia
Location: Croatia
7 July 2009 at 06:18 EDT
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$89,000 a year is a one nice salary
Are you working Saturdays ?
john
Location: miami florida
7 July 2009 at 06:47 EDT
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how much does Obama ends a year may i know that plss?
forexTrilt
Location: Germany
19 July 2009 at 21:52 EDT
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How do you look for information for your blog content?
Tanya Brothen
America.gov Staff
20 July 2009 at 08:25 EDT
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We get information for our blog content from a variety of sources, and we use a variety of methods for finding that information.
We get some information from the White House website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/
We also get information from news websites like Associated Press or Reuters.
Sometimes we get information from our own writers here at America.gov.
Trilt_forex
Location: Austria
20 July 2009 at 14:21 EDT
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Any idea if there are similar blogs like this related to read?
Tanya Brothen
America.gov Staff
20 July 2009 at 16:07 EDT
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The only one I can think of is the White House’s blog: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/
Michelle (this blog’s regular author) probably knows of more, but she is out of the office until Wednesday. I’ll ask her about it when she returns and she’ll post any ideas she has for you here.
Tanya
ForexTrilt
Location: Senegal
24 July 2009 at 22:42 EDT
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Unconventional good stuff here. I normally don’t find nothing but junk but when I get something I know my people will like I link back. This is good stuff and I hope you don’t mind if I add a link back to you from my website