What is the annual salary of the president of the United States? What is the wage system in the United States?

1. At present, the annual salary of the president of the United States is 400,000 US dollars, and this salary standard has been implemented since June 1999. In the history of more than 200 years, the United States has raised the president's salary five times. 1789' s founding president Washington's annual salary is $25,000; By 1873, General Grant, who won the civil war, was elected president, and his annual salary was raised to $50,000. 36 years later, President Taft's annual salary increased to $75,000; 1949, President Truman's annual salary rose to $654.38 million; From 65438 to 0969, President Nixon's annual salary reached $200,000 for the first time.

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(1) At present, the salary level of American civil servants is divided into 15, which is adjusted according to the working years. The first-level minimum wage is $65,438+$04,757, and the fifteenth-level maximum wage is $65,438+$007,357, with a difference of $92,600, that is, the maximum wage is 7.275 times the minimum wage.

(2) American enterprises generally implement post-level wage system. Job grades are basically divided according to the results of job evaluation. There are many specific methods of job evaluation, and each enterprise decides independently. Wage forms are mainly hourly wages, blue-collar workers generally implement hourly wage system, and white-collar workers generally implement annual salary system. More than 60% of employees are paid by the hour.

(3) The salary composition of an enterprise mainly consists of three parts, namely: (1) basic salary, accounting for the vast majority; (2) Incentive wages, including excessive piece-rate wages and bonuses, generally account for a small proportion of bonuses. For example, PepsiCo's bonus is a one-time payment, only about 6% of the average salary; (3) Welfare allowance, according to the provisions of fair labor standards act, includes overtime pay, remuneration for non-working hours, social insurance premium paid by the employer for employees, part of medical expenses, health care expenses, pension, etc.

(1). Although the wages of American enterprises are determined by the enterprises themselves and the government does not directly intervene, they still indirectly regulate and manage the wages of state-owned enterprises. Its regulation system is roughly as follows: two systems are set up in the federal government agencies of the United States to deal with wage regulation and management.

(2) Ministry of Labor, specifically, the Wage and Working Hours Department of the Employment Standards Department of the Ministry and the Wage Complaints Committee of the Ministry. Be responsible for the research, formulation and implementation of policies and regulations such as minimum wage, overtime pay and allowances under special working conditions; Responsible for pre-determining the wage rates of federal construction contractors and federally funded construction projects and other public construction projects; Responsible for protecting the liabilities and income rights of employees of bankrupt enterprises.

(3) The National Labor Relations Committee is responsible for the arbitration and handling of labor relations disputes, including the arbitration and handling of wage disputes, which is also a hot spot and focus in labor relations. Headquartered in Washington, DC, the Committee is divided into 33 districts in China, with more than 2,000 employees, and each district has a district labor relations committee. There are labor courts in the system, and the levels are state labor courts, district labor courts and federal labor courts from bottom to top.

(4) In the above two systems, the Ministry of Labor is the administrative organ and the Labor Relations Committee is the arbitration institution. The nature and content of their work are different, but they all indirectly play a role in regulating the wages of enterprises.

Wage refers to the labor remuneration paid to employees by employers or statutory employers in the form of money according to laws, industry regulations or agreements with employees. Salary can be calculated in different forms, such as hourly salary, monthly salary and annual salary. In China, the following expenses borne or paid by the employer to employees are not wages: (1) social insurance premiums; (2) Labor protection fee; (3) Welfare expenses; (4) One-time compensation fee paid when the labor relationship is terminated; (five) family planning fees; (six) other expenses that do not belong to wages. In political economy, wages are essentially the value or price of labor. Wage is an important part of production cost. The legal minimum wage is called the minimum wage, and there are also various wage divisions such as pre-tax salary, after-tax salary and incentive salary. In political economy, capital is essentially the value or price of labor.

(reference? Baidu encyclopedia salary)