{"id":143811,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/what-was-the-yearly-salary-of-the-first-president-of-the-united-states"},"modified":"2017-08-17T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T11:44:33","slug":"what-was-the-yearly-salary-of-the-first-president-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-was-the-yearly-salary-of-the-first-president-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"What was the yearly salary of the first president of the United States?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>$25,000<\/p>\n<p>When George Washington became president in 1789 his annual salary was $25,000. If we were to adjust this salary for inflation, in 2016 the current president would earn $702,755. Barack Obama, the most recent president to earn a salary (Donald Trump has said he won&#8217;t take the compensation) earned $400,000, the lowest inflation-adjusted salary of any sitting U.S. president. <\/p>\n<p>As a quick side-note unless it is associated with official government business presidents have to pay for their own food, clothing, education, and travel. The president receives about $69,000 to help pay for the aforementioned (non-travel related) expenses. The president also receives $100,000 for travel which isn&#8217;t a significant amount of money considering they have to pay for Air Force One, Marine One, and security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$25,000 When George Washington became president in 1789 his annual salary was $25,000. If we were to adjust this salary for inflation, in 2016 the current president would earn $702,755. Barack Obama, the most recent president to earn a salary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-was-the-yearly-salary-of-the-first-president-of-the-united-states\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}