Effective January 1, 2001, the annual salary of the President of the United States was increased to $400,000 per year, including a $50,000 expense allowance.he president's salary is set by Congress, and under Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, may not be increased or reduced during his or her current term of office.
As such, stratification is the relative social position of persons within a social group, category, geographic region, or social unit.
Sociologists use the term social stratification to describe the system of social standing. Social stratification refers to a societyâs categorization of its people into rankings of socioeconomic tiers based on factors like wealth, income, race, education, and power. You may remember the word âstratificationâ from geology class.