Salaries of Federal Employees

Here's a list of some federal employees and their current salaries as reported in January 2005:

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