system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How does President Obama get paid? Does he get a paycheck like everybody else?

Does he have to pay for his own food at the whitehouse? Does he have an account with a bajillion dollars in it? Also applies to other politicians high up on the pyramid.
gpt
The president currently earns a salary of $400,000 a year. He has a $50,000 expense allowance, a $100,000 travel allowance and a $19,000 entertainment allowance (ie for entertaining foreign dignitaries).

He pays for his, his family's and personal guests' own food. State functions and the like are paid for by the government. The White House and all its facilities are paid for by the government.