Karl Rove Gets A Raise...So Do Other Top WH Staffers...

You think they deserve their big BUCKS America, How many more Americans will die in the next 923 days 4 hrs 28mins 20 secs. How many more innocent Iraqi will die for liberation and Democracy.
National Journal Alexis Simendinger July 11, 2006 at 01:19 PM
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President Bush's most senior aides -- the ones who hold the coveted title of "assistant to the president" -- recently received a $4,200 cost-of-living bump-up in compensation and now earn a top pay rate of $165,200, according to an internal White House list of staff salaries. The list was compiled by the administration for the year that ended June 30 and is displayed both alphabetically, and by dollar ranking, below. Those at the bottom of the White House staff pay scale -- the folks answering phones and responding to the president's mail, for example -- remain stuck at last year's pay floor of $30,000, according to a year-to-year comparison of White House data obtained by National Journal.

At that level, the White House aide who keeps a log of the gifts sent to the president makes about as much as the average starting pay for a public school teacher. At $15 an hour, that's almost three times the national minimum wage of $5.15. (Congress is debating this summer whether to raise the minimum wage, while the administration prefers to leave it where it is).

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White House "Director For Lessons Learned" Makes $106,641...

The Four Most Overpaid White House Staffers
Today the National Journal published a list of salaries for the 403 White House staffers. Here are the four most overpaid:

Deborah Nirmala Misir
Ethics Advisor
$114,688

Erica M. Dornburg
Ethics Advisor
$100,547

Stuart Baker
Director for Lessons Learned
$106,641

Melissa M. Carson
Director of Fact Checking
$46,500

And yes, there is a White House Director for Lessons Learned. We aren’t making this up.

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