The annual salary for the director of the White House Visitors Office, Ellie S. Schafer, went from $70,000 in 2009 to $100,000 in 2012.

According to annual reports to Congress on White House staff salaries, Schafer was paid $70,000 in 2009, $71,400 in 2010, $80,000 in 2011 and $100,000 in 2012.

Schafer is listed by the White House on each report as the director of the Visitors Office for each year, but was also named a special assistant to the president in 2012. Special assistants to the president are the lowest rung of commissioned White House officers, and enjoy significant perks that lower-level staffers do not, such as mess privileges and better parking.

The 2013 salary report to Congress has not been released by the White House.

The White House said on Tuesday that it is canceling all White House public tours due to the automatic spending cuts passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama as part of the Budget Control Act of 2011. (RELATED: GOP mocks White House’s decision to stop tours)

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