President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden earned $619,976 in 2023, according to theirĀ joint tax returnreleased by the White House on Monday ā the deadline date for Americans to file their taxes.
The White House also released the return for Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, showing that pair made $450,299 last year.
āPresident Biden believes that all occupants of the Oval Office should be open and honest with the American people,ā the White House said in a statement on Monday, āand that the longstanding tradition of annually releasing presidential tax returns should continue unbroken.ā
That statement could be seen as a dig at former President Donald Trump, who declined to voluntarily release his tax returns while he was president. Six years of Trumpās tax returns, including from his time as president, were released to the public by the House Ways and Means CommitteeĀ at the end of 2022.
The bulk of the Bidensā income came from President Bidenās congressionally mandated $400,000 salary, along with pensions. The first lady also earned $85,985 from her position as a teacher at Northern Virginia Community College.
First of all, sheās a college professor not a āteacherā.
Second, teachers at lower levels are leaving the profession. Thereās not enough teachers for the roles right now. Itās not rewarding anymore.
my wife is a senior lecturer at a university and makes 50k, so these arenāt accurate numbers at all.
Sounds like she works at a stingy university, and is probably not also the Presidentās wife.
higher educational recruitment is a mess. She gets a daily email digest of jobs, there have been 2 in the last 5 years she couldāve applied to with better rates of pay, but both were very rural and away from friends and family by thousands of miles