<Tr> <Th> Salary </Th> <Td> US $230,700 annually </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.whitehouse.gov </Td> </Tr> <P> The Vice President of the United States of America (informally referred to as VPOTUS, or Veep) is the second - highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the President of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession . The vice president is also an officer in the legislative branch, as President of the Senate . In this capacity, the vice president presides over Senate deliberations (or delegates this task to a member of the Senate), but may only vote to break a tie . The Vice President also presides over joint sessions of Congress . </P> <P> The vice president is indirectly elected, together with the president, to a four - year term of office by the people of the United States through the Electoral College . Section 2 of the Twenty - fifth Amendment, ratified in 1967, created a mechanism for intra-term vice presidential succession, establishing that vice presidential vacancies will be filled by the president and confirmed by both houses of Congress . Previously, whenever a vice president had succeeded to the presidency or had died or resigned from office, the vice presidency remained vacant until the next presidential and vice presidential terms began . </P>

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