According to the latest federal employee income disclosed by the U.S. federal government, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top epidemiologist in the United States, is the highest-paid federal employee.
His annual salary in 2019 was more than $410,000, exceeding the president’s annual salary of $400,000.
Former Vice President Pence is more than Fauci, but his annual salary is $235,000.
Of the approximately 4 million federal employees in the United States, the highest-paid are health and dental officials.
According to Forbes on the 25th, the “OpenTheBooks” network in the United States obtained the federal government’s 2019 salary data under the Freedom of Information Act (FIA), which is the latest salary situation currently disclosed by the federal government.
The highest-paid of all federal employees is Fauci, who earns $417,608 (about $2.7 million) a year, Dr. Deborah Box, the response coordinator of the White House COVID-19 Task Force. Deborah Birx) recorded $305,972 in 2019.
Among other departments of the federal government, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi earns $223,300 a year, John Roberts, the Supreme Court Justice of the United States earns $270,700 a year, and the Senate and Representatives earn $174,000 a year, and the four-star will earn $268,000 a year; both of them are low.
Fauci’s income even exceeds the current salary of the President of the United States of $400,000 a year.
However, it must be noted that former President Trump kept his campaign promise not to receive wages, but issued salaries to government agencies in the form of cheques every quarter.
Fauci received a total federal salary of $3.6 million over the 10-year period from 2010 to 2019; in 2014, his annual salary rose from $335,000 to $417,000 now.
Of course, the higher the income, the heavier the responsibility.
After the arrival of COVID-19, Fauci was once marginalized and criticized by the Trump regime that fought against the epidemic, he still became the most trusted person of the American people on the epidemic.
After Biden came to power, Fauci was re-used and appointed as the president’s chief medical adviser.
He also led a delegation to participate in the meeting of the Executive Committee of the World Health Organization to assist Biden in achieving his goal of returning to the World Health Organization.
According to the Daily Mail, Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID, affiliated with the National Institutes of Health NIH) and the President’s chief medical adviser, would earn 250 from 2019 to 2024 if he stayed in office until the end of the current government. $10,000 – without a raise.
It is worth mentioning that when Fauci connected with famous actor Matthew McConaughey last August, McConaughey asked him “if he invested millions of dollars in the coronavirus vaccine”, Fauci laughed loudly and said, “Matthew, no, I didn’t invest a penny! I am a (federal) government employee, and the government pays me.”
The U.S. federal government has about 4 million employees, including 2.1 million employees of federal agencies, 1.4 million employees of the federal army and 500,000 employees of the postal service.
They are usually paid by rank, but there are exceptions, such as health officials such as Fauci.
The Daily Mail said that this seems to be because the federal government needs to compare the income levels of doctors and scientists in private hospitals.
Fauci received a medical degree from Cornell University. He has been working for the National Institutes of Health since 1968, and this year is the 53rd year.
Since Reagan, he has served as an adviser to successive presidents, and George W. Bush has awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor of the United States citizen.
Daily Beast reported on the 25th that since Biden took office, former President Trump has been paying attention to Anthony Fauci, the chief medical expert of the White House, who has recently been active in front of the media camera.
After learning that Fauci expressed his unreleaving praise for Biden’s new administration and couldn’t help but confess that he was “liberate”, he angrily said that Fauci should have been fired earlier.
