Shugaban Amurka, wanda yanzu haka ya samu kamari ya shekara 400,000, bai samu babban bashin cikin shekaru 20 da suka gabata. Kamari hii, wadda aka bayyana a cikin Title 3 na U.S. Code, an biya ta kowace wata. A gefe gaba, shugaban kasa yana samun karin $50,000 ba tare da kaiwa haraji ba don asusu, $100,000 don asusu na tafiye-tafiye, da $19,000 don asusu na nishadi.
Tun daga shekarar 1969 zuwa 2001, lokacin da Kongresi ta Æ™ara albashi na shugaban Æ™asa, shugaban Æ™asa ya samu $200,000 kowace shekara. A wata taron bita da aka gudanar a shekarar 1999 game da Æ™ara albashi, an ambaci cewa biyan shugaban Æ™asa ba ya Æ™aruwa cikin shekaru talatin, yayin da albashi na shugabannin kamfanoni na masana’antu ke tashi sosai.
Shugaban Æ™asa kuma yana samun fa’ida daga gidan White House, wanda aka biya kamar gida. Bayan barin ofis, shugabannin Amurka suna samun pensioli na shekara-shekara, wanda yanzu ya kai fiye da $200,000, ofis a wuri da suka zaÉ“a, da asusu na tafiye-tafiye, a Æ™arÆ™ashin Dokar Tsoffin Shugabannin 1958.
Shugabannin Amurka kuma suna samun kudaden duniya bayan barin ofis ta hanyar sayar da littattafai, taro na magana, da sauran ayyukan riba. Ulysses S. Grant ya zama shugaban Amurka na farko da ya rubuta tarihin rayuwarsa, wanda ya kammala kwanaki kaÉ—an kafin mutuwarsa a shekarar 1885. Haka kuma, ko’ina shugabannin zamani, ban da Franklin Delano Roosevelt da John F. Kennedy, sun rubuta tarihin rayuwarsu.
