President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden earned $619,976 in 2023, according to their joint tax returnreleased by the White House on Monday – the deadline date for Americans to file their taxes.

The White House also released the return for Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, showing that pair made $450,299 last year.

“President Biden believes that all occupants of the Oval Office should be open and honest with the American people,” the White House said in a statement on Monday, “and that the longstanding tradition of annually releasing presidential tax returns should continue unbroken.”

That statement could be seen as a dig at former President Donald Trump, who declined to voluntarily release his tax returns while he was president. Six years of Trump’s tax returns, including from his time as president, were released to the public by the House Ways and Means Committee at the end of 2022.

The bulk of the Bidens’ income came from President Biden’s congressionally mandated $400,000 salary, along with pensions. The first lady also earned $85,985 from her position as a teacher at Northern Virginia Community College.

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[–] 122 points 2 years ago (8 children)

You know what's disgusting? 85k salary for a teacher. Teachers need more.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh boy don’t look at Florida’s teacher salaries then. (Or whatever hell holes are the 2 states lower than us)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I would like to know where to be to make that kind of money. My partner with a masters, just started making low 60s and we live in the highest paying district in the state. Avg home price is 575,188 and they have 70k in. No wonder we can buy here and stay here

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I mean, in general, sure? It's a very expensive area, 100k is middle class even with the public servant housing programs they run

    It's community college though - is she teaching a class a week or full time?

    I'm more concerned about elementary school teachers being sucked dry for $55-75k with higher degrees ( that's 10k up from what it was a decade ago... I hope I'm way under but I'm probably over)

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  • [+] -15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s a community college, so she might only teach one or two classes

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When I was an adjunct in 2018, I earned about $4k/class.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, I’m assuming she’s pretty highly paid in comparison to her coworkers, but community colleges don’t pay especially well.

    Ideally community colleges can get specialized funding so they can pay their workers adequately without raising prices.

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  • [+] -24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    President does not pay Teachers.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I know, I can be annoyed without it being in their control.

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  • [+] -21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But you see the point of the article is to get folk thinking about the inequity and blame the President. Thus, while you didn't take the bait, you are circling the hook and paying attention.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Because theres large inequity and it should be addressed

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tolookah never suggested that.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    incorrect. the assumption is implied from the headline and while no that was not the comment's intent it is playing along none the less.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're saying Tolookah is "playing along" with an "implied assumption" [that you made] from the headline.

    So they still never said that Biden directly pays teachers. You made an assumption about a headline and are forcing it as a strawman argument.

    There's need to be condescending and dismissive, it makes it unpleasant to have discussions online.

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  • [+] -45 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    $85k for teacher seems reasonable in my opinion, especially considering how much time they get off during the year.

    I thought it was much lower than that.

    That said, I would love to see them make more than that. However, teaching is a fulfilling and rewarding job, and a lot of people do it for that reason. That makes it a competitive job market, and that's probably why salaries are low.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    First of all, she's a college professor not a "teacher".

    Second, teachers at lower levels are leaving the profession. There's not enough teachers for the roles right now. It's not rewarding anymore.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    my wife is a senior lecturer at a university and makes 50k, so these aren't accurate numbers at all.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sounds like she works at a stingy university, and is probably not also the President's wife.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    higher educational recruitment is a mess. She gets a daily email digest of jobs, there have been 2 in the last 5 years she could've applied to with better rates of pay, but both were very rural and away from friends and family by thousands of miles

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