3 U.S.C. § 102
Compensation of the President
United States · Title 3 — THE PRESIDENT · Status: effective
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- 3 U.S.C. § 102, Compensation of the President, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/423958
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The President shall receive in full for his services during the term for which he shall have been elected compensation in the aggregate amount of $400,000 a year, to be paid monthly, and in addition an expense allowance of $50,000 to assist in defraying expenses relating to or resulting from the discharge of his official duties. Any unused amount of such expense allowance shall revert to the Treasury pursuant to section 1552 of title 31, United States Code. No amount of such expense allowance shall be included in the gross income of the President. He shall be entitled also to the use of the furniture and other effects belonging to the United States and kept in the Executive Residence at the White House.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- A bill to clarify the authority for employment of personnel in the White House Office and the Executive Residence at the White House, to clarify the authority for employment of personnel by the President to meet unanticipated needs, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2000
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004