As of March 2011, he earns a Base Salary of $4,030,017.00 EURO per year plus performance bonuses. At a calculated guess, he would bring home close to 6 MILLION EURO a year. Not bad
he donated it to charity
75K- 75,000
Hoover donated his salary as president to charity.
Herbert Hoover
The annual salary for the President was $200,000 when Bush was in office. He was also paid some expense money for entertaining.
The president in 1930 was Herbert Hoover. His salary was $75,000. President Hoover was the 31st president and he served from March 4, 1929 to March 4, 1933.
Herbert Hoover and Jack Kennedy both refused to take a salary as president. I do not know whether they refused to accept it or took it and gave it back.
Herbert Hoover and John Kennedy donated their salaries to charity. George Washington did not want any salary, but he became convinced that serving without pay could set a precedent that would prevent other less wealthy people from accepting the presidency.
There have been two U.S. presidents who chose not to take a salary during their time in office. The first was George Washington, who declined a salary for his entire presidency. The second was Herbert Hoover, who also refused to accept a salary during his term in office. Both presidents were independently wealthy and felt that they did not need the salary for their service to the country.
George Washinton refused the presidential salary, however he asked for his living Who_is_the_only_President_not_to_accept_a_salaryto be covered. Theodore Roosevelt used his salary solely for entertaining at the White House. John F. Kennedy donated his salary to charity.Read more: Who_is_the_only_President_not_to_accept_a_salary
No. But 35th U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose term of office was January 20, 1961-November 22, 1963, and 41st U.S. Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, whose term of office was December 19, 1974-January 20, 1977, did. * Added - President Herbert Hoover donated his salary to charity, the first to do so.
No, there is no evidence that he did. And this is not unusual. Even some of the wealthiest men in America have taken their salary when they were elected to the presidency. On the other hand, some presidents have donated large portions of their salary to worthy causes, and it seems that there were several presidents who did donate all of it-- some sources say that Herbert Hoover (a Republican) and John F. Kennedy (a Democrat) donated their entire salary to charity. But George W. Bush does not seem to have donated his.