White House Staffers Got 8+ Percent Raises

Over the last year nearly half of the Obama White House’s staffers have received raises during a time when employment is stagnating and the vast majority of people in the private sector are doing without a raise....
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Of the 270 White House staffers who have been there for more than a year, 146—or 54 percent—received raises, according to Gawker. The average salary increase was 8 percent. If you look at only staffers who got raises, the average increase was twice that.

"That's a much bigger raise than the average white-collar worker got. According to a survey conducted last year by the human resources consulting firm Mercer, most firms were projecting a 3 percent increase in base pay for executives. White House workers did nearly three times as well...

But the across-the-board freeze didn't take effect until January 1, 2011, so the most recent report (which goes back to July 2010) features some eye-opening raises, like special assistant to the president for economic policy Matthew Vogel's $59,000, 82 percent raise to an annual salary of $130,500, or director of African American media Kevin Lewis' $36,000, 86 percent pay hike, Gawker reports.