Highest Paid Employee
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Dr. Anthony Fauci made $417,608 in 2019, according to Open the Books, a government watchdog group.
The annual salary for Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease, makes the highest paid doctor in the federal government and the highest paid out of all 4 million federal employees," Forbes reported.
In fact, Fauci's salary is more than the president of the United States' annual $400,000 pay.
Fauci, now President Biden's chief medical adviser, will make $2.5 million if he keeps his government job through 2024, which marks the end of the administration's first term. The projected income does not factor in raises.
Forbes also reports Fauci made $3.6 million from 2010 to 2019. Since 2014, His pay increased from $335,000 to the current $417,608.
Two other employees at the Department Of Health And Human Services also make more than the president. John H. York makes $410,349 and Gary H. Gibbons makes $406,095. Each, like Fauci, are identified as "medical officer."
Fauci, an immunologist who served on Trump's White House Coronavirus Task Force, made more than Task Force colleague Dr. Deborah Birx, who earned $305,972 in 2019, the watchdog group reported.
The 80-year-old doctor also made a lot more than former Vice President Mike Pence, who earned $235,100 in 2019.
In comparison House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will earn $223,500 this year. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will make $270,700, Forbes reported.
While pay for federal employee salaries are generally capped at level IV of the Executive Schedule, which Forbes put at $172,500 in 2019, "there are exceptions, as Fauci’s salary demonstrates.
The exception are to make federal salaries for doctors and scientists more competitive with those in the private-sector.
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@xenon said in Highest Paid Employee:
He's probably worth A LOT more in the private sector.
Because of name recognition, sure. Or do you believe he has some special epidemiological talents that the market would recognize as worth A LOT more than what he's making on taxpayer money?
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@horace it's impossible to separate his public persona from what he's worth - because external relations would be a big part of the top epidemiologist or biological scientist at any private sector job (e.g., hospital system, university, large drug maker etc.).
Then there's consulting gigs and board positions. Top professors typically make most of their money from consulting on their area of expertise. So, something like that.
Plus he's an MD, so 400K is already kinda in line with average specialist salary.
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@xenon said in Highest Paid Employee:
@horace it's impossible to separate his public persona from what he's worth - because external relations would be a big part of the top epidemiologist or biological scientist at any private sector job (e.g., hospital system, university, large drug maker etc.).
Then there's consulting gigs and board positions. Top professors typically make most of their money from consulting on their area of expertise. So, something like that.
Plus he's an MD, so 400K is already kinda in line with average specialist salary.
Right, it would be impossible to separate. But one could look up what epidemiologists make and come to a comfortable ballpark figure, absent the name recognition.
It's not as if ex-presidents make so much money on the public speaking circuit because of their unique insights and wisdom. It's just that people are willing to pay to be in personal contact with power, however useless that contact actually is, beyond its emotional value to the primates who yearn for it.
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It is not that Dr. Fauci is overpaid, it is that the president is WAY WAY underpaid.
I think I mentioned this before, but Singapore has made it a "rule" to match high level government people salaries in line with private industry, the thinking that job responsiblities are the same or greater, and making salaries competitive with private companies will lead to a greater group of potential government ministers, etc.
Here is an article that explains it.
(https://www.dollarsandsense.sg/heres-much-singapores-president-cabinet-ministers-paid-salary/)
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@taiwan_girl said in Highest Paid Employee:
It is not that Dr. Fauci is overpaid, it is that the president is WAY WAY underpaid.
Totally agree. The president has so much impact on the economy and the stock market, he (or she!) really should be paid commensurately.
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@horace said in Highest Paid Employee:
@taiwan_girl said in Highest Paid Employee:
It is not that Dr. Fauci is overpaid, it is that the president is WAY WAY underpaid.
Totally agree. The president has so much impact on the economy and the stock market, he (or she!) really should be paid commensurately.
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Maybe if the job paid more, they'd be able to hire somebody half decent to do it.
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@horace said in Highest Paid Employee:
@taiwan_girl said in Highest Paid Employee:
It is not that Dr. Fauci is overpaid, it is that the president is WAY WAY underpaid.
Totally agree. The president has so much impact on the economy and the stock market, he (or she!) really should be paid commensurately.
Too funny.
