Who is paying these guys?

After listening to the news last night as they covered the idiotic comments Van Jones made a few months ago, I got to wondering ... exactly how mant czars does Obama have?

Came across this article. They list a total of 28. Twenty eight direct appointments by the President. Twenty eight jobs that didn't require a vetting process. Twenty eight jobs which are made up out of whole cloth, have no official written job description (other than what the President says it is), and probably have no yearly evaluations. Best of all, they are twenty eight jobs, the tabs of which I presume are being picked up by the American tax payer. We're looking at well over a couple of million dollars in salaries and benefits for these positions, unless they're all working for a dollar or volunteering, and I highly doubt that is the case.

What gives? Don't the various agencies have enough manpower that they can do the work the President needs to have done within their current structures? What good are the Secretaries of the various Departments, isn't this what they're there for?