President Biden’s White Home workers is the biggest since former President Richard Nixon’s and has seen a turnover price of 77% since he took workplace in 2021.
The White Home boasts 565 staffers at a price ticket of almost $61 million, a slight enhance from the record-setting 560 staffers Biden had his first yr in workplace, in line with a report from Open the Books.
Biden is the primary president to boast over 500 staffers since Nixon, the report famous, a workers that was so huge that Time journal declared in 1971 that it was rising with “startling rapidity.”
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President Joe Biden. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)
First Girl Jill Biden’s workers has ballooned to 24 in 2024, matching the often-criticized rely of former First Girl Michelle Obama’s workers in 2009 and greater than doubling the quantity readily available for former First Girl Melania Trump, which maxed out at 11.
The primary woman’s workers, which incorporates advisers in international coverage, schooling and healthcare, is available in at a price ticket of $2.5 million, the report notes.
The workers employed by President Biden far outstrips the quantity readily available on the similar time within the presidencies of his quick predecessors, with former President Donald Trump using a workers of 413 in Fiscal Yr 2020, and former President Barack Obama boasting a workers of 468 in Fiscal Yr 2012.
Former President Donald Trump. (.Donald Trump 2024 marketing campaign)
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In the meantime, the president’s present payroll of $60.8 million additionally outstrips the highs seen below each Trump and Obama, with Obama’s highest payroll coming in at an inflation-adjusted $58.3 million, and Trump’s at an inflation-adjusted $52.2 million.
Biden’s highest paid staffer is Michelle Barrans, an affiliate counsel who’s “on element” from the Securities and Change Fee and receives a wage of $251,258. The second-highest-paid is Farah Ahmad, a particular advisor for financial growth, who pulls in $191,900.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama. (Spencer Platt/Getty Photos.)
However Biden has additionally seen overwhelming turnover since he took workplace in 2021, with 435 of the preliminary 560 workers having left from when the numbers have been first reported.
Reached for remark by Fox Information Digital, a White Home spokesperson acknowledged a 9 % enhance in workers from final yr, noting that the rise was “primarily pushed by constructing out groups with a sure coverage focus, such because the Workplace of Pandemic Preparedness & Response Coverage and the Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention.”
“During the last yr, the White Home additionally crammed vacancies throughout varied departments — and these vacancies weren’t mirrored within the July 1, 2023, report,” the spokesperson added.
