Context For democracy to function, we need transparency. Part of the transparency is given to us through government salaries and names of employees. Since 1996, the White House has been required by Congress to disclose a list of staff and their salaries. Content The Obama_staff_salaries covers salaries under the Obama administration from 2009-2016 (by Julianna Langston). The White_house_2017_salaries was released by the White House as a 16-page PDF, detailing the salaries of Trump Administration's employees. This is a CSV scraped from the PDF using Tabula (by Carl V. Lewis). Acknowledgements I would like to thank @julilangston and @carblewis at data.world for providing these datasets. Inspiration How do WH staff salaries compare to Trump staff salaries? How much did each administration spend on Immigration advisor/assistant staff? Who has more executive assistants? How did salaries under the Obama's administration change from 2009-2016?