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- The White House released its annual salary report on June 28.
- The salaries range from from $30,000 to $183,000 a year, with 22 staffers earning the top rate or more.
- Here’s a list of the top earners and what they’ve done to qualify for such decent pay.
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For those keeping the White House running smoothly or advising on matters of national security, a healthy pay check is probably expected.
On June 28, the White House released its report of salaries for 2019. Twenty staffers earn the top salary of $183,000 per year — and two actually earn more due to being detailies. In 2017 and 2018, for contrast, the highest-paid staffers made $179,700.
President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner both serve as advisers, but they don’t take a salary. Trump earns $400,000 a year, but he has donated his paychecks to various executive branch departments.
Among those earning the most are familiar faces like national security adviser John Bolton, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, and counselor Kellyanne Conway. But some of the staffers aren’t household names.
Here’s the full list of the White House’s highest-paid staffers.
John S. Czwartacki, senior adviser to the chief of staff for strategy and stakeholder engagement: $239,595.
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Meet the White House’s most well paid staffer. John Czwartacki, 49, reports to acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who is also the director of the Office of Management and Budget and was the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Czwartacki started as the director of communications at the the OMB in January 2017, and moved to head comms at the CFPB in April 2018.
He’s had a long career in communications, beginning in 1992 when he became a press secretary for former House Speaker John Boehner. He later founded his own communications firm, Next Level Strategies, American Banker reported, and was also a director of communications for 9 years at Verizon.
Mick Mulvaney, acting chief of staff: $203,500.
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John Michael "Mick" Mulvaney, 51, is also a detailee and is the second-highest paid staffer in the White House.
He has been in the White House since early 2017 after President Donald Trump nominated him to be director of the Office of Management and Budget in late 2016. Since 2019, he has also been the acting chief of staff. While the role isn’t concrete, usually it involves managing the flow of staff and information, protecting the interests of the president, negotiating, and advising the president. According to Politico, it’s "acting" in name only.
Mulvaney started out as a lawyer, before entering politics when elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 2006. From 2011 to 2017, he served as a US House representative.
Robert B. Blair, assistant to the president and senior adviser to the chief of staff: $183,000.
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There’s not a lot of public information about Robert Blair, who currently advises Mulvaney. Before the White House, Blair was an associate director of national security programs at the Office of Management and Budget.
He’s also worked as a staffer for a subcommittee and a regional adviser for the State Department’s Office of International Health Affairs. Between 1994 and 1996, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa.
Blair, and the rest of the staffers on this list, all make $183,000.
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