Peter Navarro (Assistant To The President For Trade And Manufacturing Policy) — $183,000
A total of 22 White House employees under Trump gets paid $183,000 annually, with Peter Navarro being one of them. The Harvard graduate is the President’s top man regarding trade and manufacturing policy. Navarro has been a cabinet member since the beginning and he leads the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, which Trump created in 2017. This means Navarro has no predecessor with whom we can compare salaries with.
Lindsay Reynolds (Chief Of Staff To The First Lady) — $183,000
The president’s spouse also gets their staff, and the person that leads it is given a nice pay. Pictured at left below is Lindsay Reynolds, who became Melania Trump’s chief of staff in 2017. Reynolds also served under George W. Bush and during that time, she was the associate director of the White House Visitors Office. Currently, the first lady’s staff has 12 employees, and Reynolds leads them. During Obama’s tenure, the chief of staff of then-first lady Michelle Obama was Christina Tchen, who made $176,461 a year.