Indeed, the post-speaker office has been around since 1970, when Congress provided an allowance to former Speaker John McCormack after a 42-year career in the House.
HSBC has awarded its chief executive, Stuart Gulliver, £1.7m in "fixed pay allowances" to get around the EU's rule capping bank bonuses at one times salary or double salary with shareholder approval.
Over all, his annual tax-free compensation when he was deployed to a war zone, including housing and food allowances, came to around $68,000, the Army said on Saturday.
When you're moving the cards around, you're going to have to know which allowances to make and which moves to avoid.
These include financial allowances to attract and retain health workers such as the rural location/hardship allowance, the public sector retention allowance and the accommodation allowance.
Press the seam allowances to one side.
The tax-free allowance could rise to around £14,000 a year if Vince Cable succeeds in his campaign to ensure that the minimum wage, which has lost 10-12% of its anticipated value in real terms since the crash, recovers lost ground.
Currently people who live in residential services can have almost all their income taken in order to fund those services – this means people are often left with only a "personal expenses allowance" of around £20 per week.
They will not then be eligible for targeted support-into-work sessions, organised by jobcentres, and will instead automatically go on to jobseeker's allowance, which pays around £30 less a week than the existing incapacity benefit.
For each of those, I'd get a total allowance of around £40,200.
