Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Size of White House Office of Chief of Staff by Year & Source (as of July 2, 2019)

Year
POTUS
U.S. Government Manual[1]
Archival Data[2]
Capital Source
Washington Post[3]
Report to Congress[4]
1953
Eisenhower

  1



1954
Eisenhower

  1



1955
Eisenhower

  1



1956
Eisenhower

  1



1957
Eisenhower

  1



1958
Eisenhower

  1



1959
Eisenhower

  1



1960
Eisenhower

  1



1961
Kennedy

  0



1962
Kennedy

  0



1963
Kennedy

  0



1964
Johnson

  0



1965
Johnson

  0



1966
Johnson

  0



1967
Johnson

  0



1968
Johnson

  0



1969
Nixon

  6



1970
Nixon

  6



1971
Nixon

  5



1972
Nixon

  4



1973
Nixon

  5



1974
Nixon

  4



1975
Ford

  2



1976
Ford

  5



1977
Carter

  0



1978
Carter

  0
  7


1979
Carter

  9
--


1980
Carter

11
20


1981
Reagan
5

10


1982
Reagan
7

--


1983
Reagan
7

  9


1984
Reagan
7

--


1985
Reagan
2

15


1986
Reagan
1

50


1987
Reagan
3

  6


1988
Reagan
3

  8


1989
G.H.W. Bush
4

  8


1990
G.H.W. Bush
4

  7


1991
G.H.W. Bush
3

  8


1992
G.H.W. Bush
3

  7


1993
Clinton
3

10


1994
Clinton
3

39


1995
Clinton
5

36


1996
Clinton
5

22


1997
Clinton
4

20


1998
Clinton
5

30


1999
Clinton
4

21


2000
Clinton
5

20


2001
G.W. Bush
3

  8


2002
G.W. Bush
4

  8


2003
G.W. Bush
4

  7


2004
G.W. Bush
3

  7


2005
G.W. Bush


  8
9

2006
G.W. Bush


12
10

2007
G.W. Bush


10
8

2008
G.W. Bush



6

2009
Obama




11
2010
Obama




11
2011
Obama




10
2012
Obama




13
2013
Obama




15
2014
Obama




10
2015
Obama




10
2016
Obama




11
2017
Trump




6
2018
Trump




3
2019
Trump




9
2020
Trump









[1] Staffers are counted only when the Manual refers explicitly to the office of the chief of staff.
[2] Data for 1953 through 2004 are from Table 2, Karen M. Hult and MaryAnne Borrelli, “Organizational Interpretation or Objective Data? Examining the U.S. Presidency through the Government Manual,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2005. Data for 1953-1968 are drawn from archival research for Charles E. Walcott and Karen M. Hult, Governing the White House: From Hoover through LBJ (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995); those for 1969-1980 are from archival research for Karen M. Hult and Charles E. Walcott, Empowering the White House: Governance under Nixon, Ford, and Carter (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004).
[3] Presidential administrations have been required to report staff/salary information to Congress that included the names, titles, and salaries of White House staffers since 1995. Reporters such as Dan Froomkin at the Washington Post would reprint the hard copy report for public consumption. E.g. see the 2008 report here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/graphics/2008stafflistsalary.html.
[4] The Obama administration is the first to release its annual reports to Congress electronically. E.g., the 2013 list can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/annual-records/2013.

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