Sean Doocey (Director Of Presidential Personnel) — $168,000
When there is a need to fill a position, the Presidential Personnel Office vets possible candidates and make recommendations for potential candidates. The U.S. Senate may have to confirm these candidates. Earning an annual salary of $168,000, Director of the PPO Sean Doocey showed his role’s power recently by shooting down two candidates for the position of secretary of Homeland Security whom Trump endorsed. In the Obama administration, Rodin Mehrbani held the same title and earned $172,200 in 2016.
Sean Doocey (Director Of Presidential Personnel) — $168,000
Frank Walsh (Ethics Counsel) — $151,633
It is worth a pretty penny to provide the president with legal advice on matters of ethics. Trump has two lawyers in his staff and both hold the title of ethics counsel. Frank Walsh, a Georgetown law graduate, earns more than the other. He once was a judge advocate for the United States Army Reserve and was a former ethics counsel for the U.S. Agency for International Development. In Obama’s administration, there were also two ethics counsel attorneys and the highest-paid earned $123,406 in 2016.
Frank Walsh (Ethics Counsel) — $151,633
