President Obama is paid $400,000 a year (plus expenses for travel, entertainment etc); that is the same salary that President Bush made. (The pay for a US president was increased by congress in 1999 and the new amount went into effect in 2001.)
There is a rule that the president's salary can not be changed in the middle of a term.
80% of their salary.
Pay raises become effective with the next term in office for Congressman. As far as the President is concerned, they can raise his salary anytime they wish.
As a group one-term presidents are not so successful which is why they were one-term presidents. Polk refused to run for a second term and he was probably the most successful one-termer. Taft would very probably have won a second term if Theodore Roosevelt had supported him instead of breaking with with his party and running as an independent against him.
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No, that is not a requirement.
John Adams is one of them.
An Israeli Presidents' term is 7 years long, and they may only serve one term. Before 1993, a term was 5 years long, and presidents were limited to two terms.
The president's salary was set at $25,000 per year when Washington took office in 1789.
The length of a term for the President of the United States is four years. A president may one serve two terms in his lifetime.
4 years
They get a set salary per month. Congress votes on it and the one they get as well. Some presidents don't take the salary because they don't need it. JFK was one who didn't. The presidents pay for their household items and food. Only state dinners are paid for by the government.