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White House staffers got a bigger raise than you did last year

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Did you get a raise last year? Seventy-four percent of White House staffers did, according a Gawker analysis of the White House’s annual salary reports to Congress. Probably for the great job they’re doing with the economy.

Earlier this week, USA Today published an analysis of the federal workforce showing that it pays to work for the government: The number of feds earning more than $150,000 per year has increased tenfold since 2005, and the number earning above $180,000 has increased twentyfold. That prompted us to take a look at White House salaries, and it turns out that working for Barack Obama is not a bad gig.

Obama famously instituted a salary freeze for all White House staffers earning more than $100,000 on his first day in office because “during this period of economic emergency, families are tightening their belts, and so should Washington.”

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