Biden’s $417K/year pension is historically big, more than his presidential salary. Maximize your own retirement income
Yahoo Finance·2026-01-06 16:45

Former U.S. president Joe Biden began his Washington, D.C. career as one of the least wealthy politicians and ended it with the highest pension in POTUS history. And that’s no malarky. Demian Brady (1), vice-president of the National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF), told the New York Post that the 83-year-old’s pension is $417,000 a year — an “historically unusual” amount outpacing the U.S. presidential salary of $400,000 (1). “Biden is making more in retirement than the current president gets (in a s ...