Who are the highest paid White House advisers? Top staffers Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer are easily raking in six figures, but even they're not drawing the biggest paycheck.
Jared and Ivanka TrumpSalary: $0. The first daughter and son-in-law are serving as advisers to the president but are not drawing a salary.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File
Reed Cordish, (left) presidential assistant for intragovernmental and technology initiatives.
Salary: $0.
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Gary Cohn, chief economic adviser.
Salary: $30,000. Formerly a top executive at Goldman Sachs, Cohn is working at the White House at a steep discount.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president
Salary: $155,000
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
AP Photo/Susan Walsh
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, principal deputy White House press secretary
Salary: $165,000
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
Hope Hicks, White House Director of Strategic Communications
Salary: $179,700
(AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
AP Photo/ Evan Vucci
Dina Powell, deputy national security adviser for strategy
Salary: $179,700
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Stephen Miller, senior adviser
Salary: $179,700
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Omarosa Manigault, director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison
Salary: $179,700
(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
AP Photo/Richard Drew
Reince Priebus, White House chief of staff
Salary: $179,700
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
AP Photo/Susan Walsh
Sean Spicer, White House press secretary
Salary: $179,700
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Kellyanne Conway, White House counselor
Salary: $179,700
(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
AP Photo/Richard Drew
Stephen Bannon, White House chief strategist
Salary: $179,700
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 40 percent of White House staffers earn in excess of $100,000 a year, according to new salary details released Friday. And some of the wealthiest aides to President Donald Trump aren’t paid at all.
A White House staff salary document shows that 22 of Trump’s aides, including some of the best-known to the public, are earning $179,700.
They include chief strategist Steve Bannon, chief of staff Reince Priebus, press secretary Sean Spicer and senior counselor Kellyanne Conway.
Also making $179,000: Omarosa Manigault, the former “Apprentice” contestant who serves as director of communications for White House office of public liaison; and social media director Dan Scavino.
Several of the president’s closest aides are choosing not to take a salary. Among those forgoing pay are Trump’s daughter Ivanka, identified in the official document as “first daughter and adviser to the president,” and son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner.
A presidential assistant for intragovernmental and technology initiatives, Reed Cordish, is also going unpaid. He too comes from a real estate family.
Other aides such as Gary Cohn, formerly a top executive at Goldman Sachs, are working at a steep discount of $30,000.
The highest-paid staffer appears to be senior policy adviser Mark House, who is making $187,100 a year, according to the 16-page document.
The White House has been required to report the salaries and staff titles to Congress every year since 1995.
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Associated Press writer Jill Colvin contributed to this report.
