As the saying goes, campaigns don't end, they just run out of money.

Scott Walker's two-month presidential fling proved this maxim in spectacular fashion, as his third quarter finance filing screams a lack of fiscal probity.

The Wisconsin governor's campaign, which shuttered Sept. 21, burned through cash faster than Donald Trump fired apprentices.

The first glaring problem was the size of the operation: Walker had 84 paid staff members on his team, not including an assembly of outside consultants who also collected checks.

But it was the exorbitant salaries that caused a mammoth immediate drain on the budget.

Photographer Andrew Snow, assigned to trail Walker at events and snap images of the candidate, collected $11,700 a month -- on pace to make $140,000 a year.

Alyson Higgins, a personal aide to Tonette Walker, the governor's wife, was allocated a salary of $89,000.

Walker employed six people to deal with the media, a team larger than most operations. At the helm was communications director Kirsten Kukowski, making $18,000 a month for an annual salary of more than $220,000. That's an amount considerably higher than most campaign managers make, including Walker's own, Rick Wiley. For comparison, The Wall Street Journal reported this summer that Ben Carson's campaign manager Barry Bennett, is on pace to make $210,000.

AshLee Strong, Kukowski's communications deputy, was to make $164,000.

Lauren Fine, serving in a junior role as press assistant, was slated for an annual salary close to $70,000.

Wiley, the former Republican National Committee operative tasked with constructing the staff and budget, was scheduled to make about $195,000 over a year -- a heaping sum for sure, but still less than Kukowski.

Matthew Mason, the campaign's political director, was making even more money -- $22,000 a month, on pace to collect $268,000 annually.

And even Walker's own children got into the campaign casino windfall.

Twenty-one-year-old Matt Walker and 20-year-old Alex Walker, who indicated they would take time off from college to campaign for their father, each took identical salaries from the Walker campaign.

Each drew monthly stipends of $1,542, placing them on pace to draw $18,509 annually.

In the end Walker raised $7.4 million for his short-lived bid, but spent close to 90 percent of what he raised in just two months.