According to the figures, Sonal Shah, who is the Deputy Assistant to the US President and Director at Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, gets an annual salary of $120,000. Both Rachana Bhowmick, who is the Director of Special Projects, and Aditya Kumar, also Director of Special Projects as well as Special Assistant to Office of Chief of Staff, earn $99,000 a year each.
Those in the salary slab less than $90,000 are Anisha Dasgupta who works as a Counsel at an annual package of $86,927 and Pradeep Ramamurthy, the Director of Response Policy, whose gross salary is $86,927.
The figures, released on the White House blog, also reveal that Kavita Patel who is the Director of Policy for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement gets $65,000 annually, while Shomik Dutta, the Special Assistant to White House Counsel, earns $62,000. Likewise, White House Policy Advisor Manashi Deshpande earns $54,000 a year while Taara Rangarajan gets $ 40,000 for her services as Deputy Associate Director.
(Published 20 September 2009, 19:22 IST)