- 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.