HankW501
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« on: February 12, 2015, 07:34:46 PM » |
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« edited: November 17, 2015, 10:07:37 PM by HankW501 »
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In 2014, I calculated each U.S. President's average annual presidential salary converted to 2014 dollars and posted the list here in Feb 2015. In Nov 2015, I updated the list to 2015 dollars. The results are listed below in descending order rounded to the nearest $1000. I used the calculator at davemanuel.com/inflation-calculator.php, which gets its data from oregonstate.edu/cla/polisci/sahr/sahr (sorry, the software said I haven't posted enough to include links). George Washington and John F. Kennedy chose not to accept their presidential salaries. I did not take that into account, nor did I consider the $50,000 expense account that started in Harry Truman's second term or any pensions after leaving office. President | Average Annual
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2015 Dollars | | William Howard Taft | $1,894,000 | | Woodrow Wilson | $1,435,000 | | William McKinley | $1,429,000 | | Theodore Roosevelt | $1,340,000 | | Grover Cleveland | $1,328,000 | | Benjamin Harrison | $1,316,000 | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | $1,230,000 | | Chester A. Arthur | $1,192,000 | | Herbert Hoover | $1,173,000 | | Rutherford B. Hayes | $1,171,000 | | Richard Nixon | $1,166,000 | | James A. Garfield | $1,163,000 | | Warren G. Harding | $1,043,000 | | Calvin Coolidge | $1,038,000 | | Harry S. Truman | $908,000 | | Gerald R. Ford | $883,000 | | Dwight D. Eisenhower | $861,000 | | John F. Kennedy | $792,000 | | Millard Fillmore | $777,000 | | Zachary Taylor | $772,000 | | Ulysses S. Grant | $768,000 | | John Tyler | $766,000 | | James K. Polk | $764,000 | | Lyndon B. Johnson | $738,000 | | Franklin Pierce | $722,000 | | James Buchanan | $714,000 | | William Henry Harrison | $694,000 | | Jimmy Carter | $688,000 | | Andrew Jackson | $676,000 | | Martin Van Buren | $653,000 | | John Quincy Adams | $611,000 | | George Washington | $579,000 | | James Monroe | $521,000 | | Abraham Lincoln | $514,000 | | Thomas Jefferson | $508,000 | | George W. Bush | $496,000 | | John Adams | $481,000 | | Ronald Reagan | $459,000 | | James Madison | $427,000 | | Barack Obama | $421,000 | | Andrew Johnson | $397,000 | | George H. W. Bush | $361,000 | | Bill Clinton | $304,000 |
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