The many perks that comes along with being president is impeccable. The president is given preferential treatment, after all, it’s a big job. Should presidents have to waste time doing their own laundry and buying plane tickets when they’re signing legislation and dispatching troops?

The VIP treatment also seems fitting considering the difficult road to the White House. Presidential candidates spend years and millions upon millions of dollars campaigning. Once they win, these perks eliminate the hassles and distractions from their all-important job.

The president enjoys a chief usher, who is like the Presidential butler and is in charge of everyone else. Under the usher are the executive chef and his staff, who are available 24 hours per day to cook or prepare whatever the POTUS and family desire. Naturally, a specialized pastry chef is on staff as well, because the leader of the free world can’t be eating stale baked goods.

The First Family enjoy the services of a social secretary who plans all their killer parties, a chief florist, and a chief calligrapher for the design of attractive official documents. Finally, the current administration enjoys the services of their long-time personal trainer, who not only makes sure the First Lady’s arms remain the envy of women all over the world, but has convinced many of the President’s staff to get fit as well. The president’s staff also includes a Chief Physician that makes sure the Commander in Chief is healthy to solve the world’s problems.

The White House is full of recreational operations that including a movie theater, bowling alley, pool, gym and a running track.  Since moving in, the Obamas also added tennis and basketball courts to the South Lawn.

The President receives some of the best recreation available. They receive invites to the best parties, and any invitation they send out is unlikely to be declined. Many activities occur on the South Lawn.

Air Force One is a major mode of transportation. The middle level of these planes carries up to 70 passengers, as well as a 26-person crew. There’s ample room in the staff, media and security areas in the back half of the plane, but the president has a personal suite under the cockpit with an office, bathroom, bedroom and workout room. The upper level of the plane is for the telecommunications center, while the bottom level is for cargo. C17 cargo planes carry the motorcade to wherever the president is headed. It costs approximately $185k an hour.

If the President gets tired of life in the city, a quick helicopter ride takes him to his very own vacation home, Camp David.

The black limo that the POTUS rides around in looks pretty normal from the outside, but is actually a rolling security and defense unit the likes of which James Bond can only dream of. It is fully armored and that it can drive even on punctured tires. It features an oxygen supply, firefighting system, and a stash of blood matching the President’s type.

The Blair House, larger than the White House, its 119 rooms include more than 20 bedroom. When foreign leaders stay at Blair House, the house flies their flag which means that the house itself becomes foreign soil. The Presidential Townhouse, set up by Nixon in 1969, is included in the property as a guesthouse for Former Presidents.

The perks continue once the sitting president leaves office. Immediately after a president leaves office, they receive 6 months of transition expenses. It covers office space, staff compensation, communications services, and printing and postage associated with the transition. Presidents before 1997 received security for life. This was changed to only 10 years for George W Bush, but then retroactively returned to lifetime security. It includes the spouse, and any children until age 16. Secret Service can also decide autonomously to continue security after. The pension is $199,000.

Travel expenses are covered once a president leaves office. Congress determined that former Presidents must travel as part of their civic duties, and are allowed $1MM in travel expenses.