Question: Who was the first U.S. President to get a raise?
Answer: During his second term, Ulysses S. Grant got the first raise Congress ever approved for the president. George Washington’s salary in 1789 was set at $25,000, and it remained at that level for 84 years until Grant’s raise in 1873. Congress doubled Grant’s salary to $50,000 in what critics at the time called the “Salary Grab Act.” The current salary for the U.S. president is $400,000 plus another roughly $170,000 in various expense, travel, and entertainment accounts.
