A post that has yet to be filled and is likely near and dear to President-elect Donald Trump is the administrator of the General Services Administration.
The job oversees 376.9 million square feet of space in 9,600 buildings with 8,100 leased and 1,500 owned in more than 2,200 communities nationwide — along with land ports of entry, courthouses, laboratories, post offices and data processing centers. Naturally, there are outposts in Hawaii and Alaska along with St. Thomas, Guam and Puerto Rico, where ground was broken in October for a new $164 million FBI facility.
Putting this in perspective, New York City has roughly 400 million square feet of office buildings, with the largest commercial property owner, SL Green Realty Corp., having 46.6 million square feet in Manhattan. In 2015, Chief Executive Marc Holliday made $23,047,749.
Under the current administration, the pay was $165,300 for the GSA Administrator who resigned in 2012 — and later testified to Congress after discovering and reporting that other employees had partied away $823,000 on a Las Vegas conference for 300 in 2010 that included a mind reader and swag, and violated US contracting requirements.
