So how much does White House job pay?
487 STAFFERS ON LIST | 4 Chicagoans earn peak of $172K
WASHINGTON -- The top Chicagoans in the Obama White House also earn the top White House staff salaries -- capped at $172,200, according to a list released Wednesday.
The $172,200 earners from Chicago: senior adviser David Axelrod, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and Susan Sher, chief of staff to the first lady.
Tina Tchen, the director of the office of public engagement, makes $153,500; Desiree Rogers, the social secretary, earns $113,000.
Nate Tamarin -- with the Obama political operation when he was a senator -- draws a $95,000 paycheck as the associate director of the White House political affairs office. Joe Reinstein, a deputy social secretary, makes $65,000.
President Obama makes $400,000.
The White House sent Congress a list of 487 "White House Office" staffers, under a requirement in place since 1995. The White House met the July 1 deadline by posting the names, titles and salaries of 487 staffers at whitehouse .gov, but did not draw attention to it by announcing it via a press release.
"We make news on our blog all the time," said spokesman Josh Earnest.
The White House added names not mandated by Congress, but did not include the vice president's office or the Office of Management and Budget.
Earnest said, "We're looking at ways we can disclose" the salary information of more White House staffers.