The US's White House releases Staff salary list

Swali ni hivi, Mr. President wangu wa WaDanganyika, how much money do you and your staff make Mzee wangu Mheshimiwa sana? But anyway, I know you won't tell me and even if you were going to, what can I do? I will piga kelele weee, but you continue to ziba masikio yako and go on with business as usual. Kelele za chura hazizuii mbuzi kukunywa maji bana. Wacha nitwange miguu kibaruani, kuchapa kazi manake nikiendelea kubishana na wewe hapa ntafulia bure tena bila ya sabuni niishie na kuula wa chuya. We endelea tu, Mungu anakuona (as if hanioni)!

News from the CNN by Political Research Director Robert Yoon
Here is the list: http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/July1Report-Draft12.pdf

Top-level staff members of the Obama White House earn the same amount as their predecessors in the Bush administration, according to a report submitted to Congress Wednesday. The president announced the pay freeze on his first full day in office for White House employees earning more than $100,000.

The report, which a 1994 law requires be submitted annually to Senate and House oversight committees, shows 487 employees on the White House personnel list. Of those, 455 are employed directly by the White House, while an additional 32 are so-called "detailees" on loan from other federal agencies.

Among the actual employees, 122 staffers earn more than $100,000 annually, compared to 125 employees in the final year of the Bush administration. Twenty-two Obama White House staffers make the top possible salary of $172,200, compared to 18 employees who made that amount in the Bush White House.

View list of staffers making over $100,000

Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and press secretary Robert Gibbs both make the top amount, as did their Bush counterparts Joshua Bolten and Dana Perino. Other top Obama aides who earn the maximum salary are senior adviser David Axelrod, White House Counsel Gregory Craig, communications director Anita Dunn, speechwriting director Jonathan Favreau, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, National Security Adviser James Jones, and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers.

The highest-paid White House staff member is Public Health Policy Director David Marcozzi, who earns $192,934. However, as a detailee from the Department of Health and Human Services, his salary is not paid directly by the White House.