Salaries Of People Working At The White House

Published on 12/10/2020
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Former Press Secretary) – $183,000

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former press secretary, made $183,000 per year, but she left her post in 2019 and Stephanie Grisham took over. Sanders used to be the White House public voice. However, she is known for having admitted to investigators that she made false statements even if she had known they were not true. Sanders started out as White House Deputy Secretary in January 2017 and replaced Sean Spicer as press secretary when he resigned in July 2017.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

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Mercedes Schlapp (Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications) – $183,000

Mercedes Schlapp started working at the White House in 2017. She joined the communications team and made $183,000 a year. She left her job in July 2019 to focus on Trump’s re-election campaign. Schlapp has experience working on political campaigns, both local and national, like George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004. She was also a member of his White House staff, serving as the Director of Specialty Media.

Mercedes Schlapp

Mercedes Schlapp

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