Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, they accepted the salary allowed them by the Persian king, and had taken of them bread and wine beside forty shekels of silver (amounting to about $360 a year, in cash alone, or, according to others, to some $30 a day); yea, even their servants bare rule over the people; but so did not I because of the fear of God, which caused him to seek the welfare of the people first.