The Obama White House recently released the salaries of its 487 staffers. The end result:
Historian Bradley Patterson, a veteran of the Eisenhower administration who has written extensively on the White House staff, estimates there are about now 5,700 people in the “White House staff family,” including residence staff, Secret Service details, Camp David employees, Air Force One crew, and so on. Add all the other offices connected to the White House—Office of Management and Budget, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of National Drug Control Policy—and Patterson estimates the total cost of salaries at a whopping $1.6 billion.
