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.
Social stratification is a concept involving the classification of people into groups based on shared socio-economic conditions. Giddens (2009:1133) defines social stratification as âthe existence of structured inequalities between groups in society, in terms of their access to material or symbolic rewardsâ.