{"id":438,"date":"2009-08-29T19:55:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T01:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2009-08-29T19:57:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T01:57:36","slug":"match-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Match Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the PTO recently posting a job opening for the position of Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy having a salary range of\u00a0$117,787- $177,000, I became curious what other public officials are paid.\u00a0 Can you match the following government positions with\u00a0their 2008\u00a0salary?<\/p>\n<p>A)\u00a0 Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court\u00a0 1)\u00a0 $172,200<\/p>\n<p>B)\u00a0 Judge, US Court of Appeals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02)\u00a0 $158,800<\/p>\n<p>C)\u00a0 Librarian of Congress\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03)\u00a0 $169,300<\/p>\n<p>D)\u00a0 Register of Copyrights\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4)\u00a0 $221,100<\/p>\n<p>E)\u00a0 US Senator\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5)\u00a0 $179,500<\/p>\n<p>F) Vice President of the United States\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06)\u00a0 $217,400<\/p>\n<p>For extra credit, can you name the Librarian of Congress?<\/p>\n<p>Answer key in the next posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the PTO recently posting a job opening for the position of Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy having a salary range of\u00a0$117,787- $177,000, I became curious what other public officials are paid.\u00a0 Can you match the following government positions with\u00a0their 2008\u00a0salary? A)\u00a0 Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court\u00a0 1)\u00a0 $172,200 B)\u00a0 Judge, US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}