Top Ten Of Highest Paid Politicians In The World

[Hakka Tiow]

April 01, 2009
The 10 highest paid politicians in the world


There is nothing like a scandal involving porn films claimed on Commons expenses to focus attention on the pay and perks enjoyed, sorry earned, by our public servants.

Even before Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, was forced to apologise for her husband's blue movies there had been calls for the whole system to be overturned. The committee on standards in public life which has promised to report on MP pay and expenses by the end of the year is under pressure to do something radical.

Whenever MPs come under attack over pay they are quick to argue that compared to executives in the private and public sector they are not particularly well paid.

With the G20 leaders in the country we thought it was worth getting a snapshot of how much the highest paid presidents and prime ministers around the world earn. For comparison's sake all earnings have been converted into dollars. It also shows basic annual salary only, not the expenses claimed on top.

So, where does our own Gordon Brown stand?

1. Lee Hsien Loong - Singapore pop. 4,608,167

Salary in dollars - $2.47 million

Salary in local currency - S$3.76 million

2. Donald Tsang Yum-Kuen - Hong Kong pop. 7,018,636
Salary in dollars - $516,000

Salary in local currency - HK$4 million

3. Barack Obama - United States pop. 303,824,640

Salary in dollars - $400,000

4. Brian Cowen - Ireland pop.4,156,119

Salary in dollars - $341,000

Salary in local currency - €257,000

5. Nicolas Sarkozy - France pop. 61,538,322

Salary in dollars - $318,000

Salary in local currency - €240,000

6. Angela Merkel - Germany pop. 82,369,552

Salary in dollars - $303,000

Salary in local currency - €228,000

7. Gordon Brown - UK pop. 60,943,912
Salary in dollars - $279,000

Salary in local currency - £194,250

8. Stephen Harper - Canada pop. 33,212,696
Salary in dollars - $246,000

Salary in local currency - C$311,000

9. Taro Aso - Japan pop. 127,288,416
Salary in dollars - $243,000

Salary in local currency - Y24 million

10. Kevin Rudd - Australia pop. 21,007,310
Salary in dollars - $229,000

Salary in local currency - A$330,000

 

[ChaoPappyPoodle]

The Top Ten is wrong. You should include all the cabinet ministers from sinkiepore as a cabinet minister earns more than Obama. And also prataman can be at the very top of the list.

 

[Hakka Tiow]

Singapore PM's salary stuns White House official

A senior White House official on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 admitted he was floored by the news that Singapore's prime minister earned five times more than US President George W. Bush. "I'm going to emigrate and run for office in Singapore," the official said on condition he be identified only as "a senior administration official who sits in disbelief after reading that story."


Here's the deal

Singapore Government officials, already with astronomical salaries/benefits got huge pay raises in past years. Now, with their poor performance, the pay of top office-holders, President S R Nathan and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will fall by 19 per cent compared with last. The President's pay will be $3.14 million and PM Lee, $3.04 million.

Who gets what (without performance bonuses)


President Nathan, a Japanese collaborator during WWII.
Singapore President's Basic Salary wil be S$3,140,000 (US$2,107,368). Singapore's current President, Nathan, was a member of the dreaded Japanese Kampeti (uniform, sword and all) during the Japanese occupation of Singapore.
Singapore Prime Minister's Basic Salary raised to S$3,040,000. This is US$2,040,255 million, or about five times more than the U.S. President, who currently takes home US$400,000.
The following pay rates have yet to be adjusted.

Senior Minister  S$3,043,300.
Minister Mentor  S$3,043,300.
Deputy Prime Minister  S$2,452,500.
Minister and Senior Perm Sec  S$1,940,000.
Entry Superscale Grade  S$398,000 [SR9 Grade].
Member of Parliament  S$225,000.
Note: At age 55, Singapore Ministers collect both a salary and their full pension.

http://www.yeocheowtong.com/Salaries.html

 

[Hakka Tiow]

Singapore ministers’high pay sparks anger
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s salary will increase to US$2 million a year as part of pay rises for civil servants announced Monday. The rises have sparked public anger in the city-state amid a widening income gap, and concerns that Lee and members of his Cabinet are already overpaid.

Teo Chee Hean, the minister in charge of the civil service, said all of Singapore’s civil service will receive pay raises, not just its ministers.

Teo, who is also defense minister, told parliament that after the increase, Lee will receive an annual salary of S$3.1 million (US$2.05 million).

He did not say how much Lee is currently paid, but news reports have said that in 2000, the Singapore prime minister was drawing an annual salary of S$1.9 million.

Lee, son of Singapore founding father Lee Kuan Yew, took over as prime minister from Goh Chok Tong in 2004.

Lee’s revised salary would be five times more than the US$400,000 paid to U.S. President George W. Bush and more than eight times that of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who receives US$240,000 a year.

Abe, who presides over the world’s second biggest economy, had slashed his own salary by 30 percent and those of his ministers by 10 percent after taking office in September.

South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun is paid US$217,000 a year and Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has an annual salary of US$167,371.

“The prime minister’s salary currently ranks 164 among (the private sector’s top) income earners. After the revision, the prime minister’s salary, at 3.1 million, will rank 102nd among the private sector earners,” Teo said.

The salaries of Cabinet members will also be raised in two stages, Teo said, but did not say if the premier’s salary adjustment will also be done in phases.

Under a benchmark pegged to top private sector salaries, Singapore ministers are supposed to be paid S$2.2 million a year. However, they are actually getting S$1.2 million, or 55 percent less.

To close the gap, Teo said the ministers’ salaries will be raised to S$1.6 million a year by the end of this year and to S$1.9 million by the end of 2008.

Teo repeated the government’s philosophy of paying competitive rates in order to “facilitate the recruitment and retention of the quality of talent we need for the government and public sector.”

But the ministers’ salary increases has sparked strident comments from a normally reserved public.

In a country where political rallies are banned without a permit and the media is closely linked with the government, many of the comments were posted on the Internet.

“This is plain injustice,” said one identified as Zac Neo, who was among more than 850 people who signed an online petition against the pay increase.

“I will agree with your pay hike only if you state very clearly what you will achieve for my pay in 12 months’ time,” said another petition signatory who did not give a name.

“Middle class income has stagnated and dropped. And you think you performed well enough to get (a) pay hike? Why don’t you just go get yourselves hired elsewhere,” said one who identified himself as Fred.

Political analyst Seah Chiang Nee told AFP that the rises have generated a “lot of anger”.

“I think the feeling is that the Cabinet ministers are already overpaid compared to the rest of the world,” he said.

Singapore founding father Lee told parliament Monday Singapore “requires an extraordinary government” if the country is to maintain its position as a top business hub.

“If you fail here, you go back to a Southeast Asian situation. Just look around you,” he said, referring to the politically volatile region.

National University of Singapore political scientist Bilveer Singh said paying ministers highly will prevent corruption.

“This is a very wealthy country. At the end of the day, people will accept it but they (public servants) will have to deliver well,” he told AFP.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/archives/asiapacific/2007410/106768.htm

 

[Hakka Tiow]

The Tuth About Ministers' Pay

As a matter of transparency and public interest, cabinet ministers are duty-bound to declare their incomes and assets. The Singapore Democrats have been calling, and do so again here, for the Government to make public such information. Unfortunately the demands have met with silence that a cemetery would be proud of.

In 1994, ministerial salaries were amended. They were calculated based on a formula that pegged with the ministers’ pay to the highest paid professions in the country.

This means that no matter how badly the economy performs and the wage level of the general population sinks, the ministers will be paid the highest salaries in the island as long as the richest few in the country continue to make their big bucks. This, of course, tempts our political leaders into concentrating on taking care of the richest of the rich instead of ensuring that the welfare of the masses are well looked after.

Such is already the trend as the Government relentlessly drums into our heads that the widening income disparity is inevitable because of this thing called global economy. This will enable the ministers to say that it is no fault of theirs that their salaries are so obscenely high while the rest of us (people they are elected to look after) scramble for the crumbs that fall off their table.

And there is nothing inevitable about the widening chasm between the rich and the poor. This is just the rich man's excuse to tell the working people that they are going to get richer and greedier, and the rest of us are going to have to accept the fact that we will have to work harder and become poorer.

Such reasoning has resulted in PAP ministers being the highest paid politicians in the world with the Prime Minister being paid three times more than the president of the United States while the Singaporeans continue to see their incomes being pulverised. Bankruptcies multiply and the increase in the number of homeless continue unabated. Social and family problems such as divorces, mental breakdowns, and suicides skyrocket as a result.

This trend must not be allowed to continue and the only people that can stop this is Singaporeans themselves.

http://www.singaporedemocrat.org/ministers' pay.html

 

[ChaoPappyPoodle]

IF they get a pension and a salary and I believe that they don't have to pay income taxes then their comparison with the private sector pay is totally a smoke screen as they actually earn a lot more than the private sector that their salaries are based on.

 

[Hakka Tiow]

Monday, April 9, 2007
Singapore Intelligentsia Speaks Out Against Minister Salary Hikes

A letter from NUS's Dr Hussin Mutalib which ST chose not to publish. Kudos to Wayne who brought this up.

STI Home > ST Forum > Online Story

April 6, 2007
Ministers' salary increase: Can it be delayed until there is more public consultation?

THE views expressed so far on this difficult issue rightly deserve attention, even as Singaporeans await the Government's presentation of its case in Parliament next week.

Given the unhappiness, it is hoped that the Government will do more to soothe this feeling during the Parliament sitting, and address this issue beyond the offer of relevant statistics and other pragmatic arguments.

This issue is not new. So too the attendant shock that many Singaporeans react to when this pay scheme was publicly goaded in the early 1990s and hotly debated in Parliament in 1995.

Let us recap the two sides of the argument. To the Government, we are fooling ourselves if we want to lure top talents but refuse to pay them top salaries, and that moral counter-points must give way to pragmatic ones.

The cost of living, the competitiveness of the market place in a global economy, the high standards of integrity and performance expected of ministers and the equally high cost to their private lives are imperatives that must be taken into account.

MM Lee even once argued that 'moral values on pay are good only for textbooks on socialism and political tracts on social justice'.

However, to many Singaporeans, other factors must be given consideration. To begin with, is it right to compare jobs in the public and private sectors since there are obvious fundamental differences between the two?

Secondly, while many have no problem with raising ministerial salaries as a matter of principle, the quantum of the raise seems to be unduly high, making our Cabinet ministers among the most highly paid in the world.

Thirdly, while we must credit the political leadership for securing Singapore a sterling economic position in the world - our Republic's GDP growth rate and foreign reserves are among the highest in the world - such a remarkable achievement could not have been attained without the contributions and sacrifices of an equally productive workforce.

Finally, this increase of ministerial salaries may convey the wrong signal that money is actually the bottomline, even in such a nationally important issue of political contribution and service.

What about other redeeming intangibles such as honour and sense of duty, dedication, passion and commitment, loyalty and service?

It may be difficult for many to believe that the talent pool is so small and that the able are so money-minded that the best way to get them to come forward is to give them more money.

Hopefully, the Government will do more to appease this unhappiness. What about delaying this proposed increase until more public consultation is done and a better way of compensating the ministers and senior civil servants be found?

Otherwise, many Singaporeans will feel the sheer helplessness that however unhappy they are about matters that are close to their hearts they will have little chance to be redressed, both outside Parliament and inside - and this is not good for Singapore's future.

Dr Hussin Mutalib

http://minorepiphany.blogspot.com/2007/04/singapore-intelligentsia-speaks-out.html

 

[makapaaa]

And the worst performing is...
And the one with the most no. of MMs, SMs, PMs and what have u not's to hand hold is...​

 

[angie II]

This means that no matter how badly the economy performs and the wage level of the general population sinks, the ministers will be paid the highest salaries in the island as long as the richest few in the country continue to make their big bucks. This, of course, tempts our political leaders into concentrating on taking care of the richest of the rich instead of ensuring that the welfare of the masses are well looked after.

66% dumbf88k sinkies deserved to be assed by PAPee for a lifetime cuz they have slave mentality

 

[funglung]

Singapore PM's salary stuns White House official

A senior White House official on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 admitted he was floored by the news that Singapore's prime minister earned five times more than US President George W. Bush. "I'm going to emigrate and run for office in Singapore," the official said on condition he be identified only as "a senior administration official who sits in disbelief after reading that story."


Here's the deal

Singapore Government officials, already with astronomical salaries/benefits got huge pay raises in past years. Now, with their poor performance, the pay of top office-holders, President S R Nathan and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will fall by 19 per cent compared with last. The President's pay will be $3.14 million and PM Lee, $3.04 million.

Who gets what (without performance bonuses)


President Nathan, a Japanese collaborator during WWII.
Singapore President's Basic Salary wil be S$3,140,000 (US$2,107,368). Singapore's current President, Nathan, was a member of the dreaded Japanese Kampeti (uniform, sword and all) during the Japanese occupation of Singapore.
Singapore Prime Minister's Basic Salary raised to S$3,040,000. This is US$2,040,255 million, or about five times more than the U.S. President, who currently takes home US$400,000.
The following pay rates have yet to be adjusted.

Senior Minister  S$3,043,300.
Minister Mentor  S$3,043,300.
Deputy Prime Minister  S$2,452,500.
Minister and Senior Perm Sec  S$1,940,000.
Entry Superscale Grade  S$398,000 [SR9 Grade].
Member of Parliament  S$225,000.
Note: At age 55, Singapore Ministers collect both a salary and their full pension.

http://www.yeocheowtong.com/Salaries.html

What about the obscene one year bonuses that those pukes in white award themselves?

What about their self appointing themselves into boards and paid fucking obscene $$$$ for that?

While holding down Sinkies with kangaroo judges for that stinking fuckhead Lee Kuan Yew to screw and rob us of 400-500++ BILLIONs into his Temasick and GIC?

AND THEY ALL ARE STILL ROBBING BILLIONS FROM US ALL



DO NOT WAIT UNTIL ELECTION TIME
THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW!

TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR RELATIVES.

SUPPORT OPPOSITION PARTIES WITH YOUR TIME AND MONEY AND STAND BY THEM AND WITH THEM.
THEY SPEAK FOR YOU AND TRY TO SPEAK FOR YOU.

LKY AND PAP HAVE BEEN USING THEIR KANGAROO COURTS TO TRY TO BANKRUPT THEM TO SILENCE THEM.

IF YOU DO NOT STAND WITH THEM AND STAND BY THEM, CAN YOU STAND ALONE AGAINST LKY?

SINGAPOREANS MUST UNITE AND SUPPORT ALL THE OPPOSITION PARTIES.


DO NOT JUST WAIT UNTIL ELECTION TO VOTE


VOTE OUT LKY AND HIS BASTARDS IN WHITE WHO ONLY WANT YOUR MONEY AND TO FUCK YOU.


IF NOT FOR YOURSELF, THEN FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHILDREN

THERE WILL NOT BE AN OBAMA AS PRESIDENT OF USA IF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THERE WAS INTIMIDATED BY BEATINGS AND LYNCHINGS IN THE PAST.


THE TOBBLING OF LKY WILL NOT BE EASY, AND CAN BE BLOODY AS WELL.
THEY WILL NOT GIVE UP THE BILLIONS THAT THEY SUCKED FROM YOU AND CAN CONTINUE TO SCREW FROM YOU NOW AND IN FUTURE.


ONLY YOU HAVE THE POWER TO SAY 'NO MORE OF THAT' AND THROW EVERYONE OF THOSE BASTARDS OUT







Already 400-500++ billions got sucked and bled by LKY into his Temasick and GIC.
HOW MANY OTHER BILLIONS GOT SUCKED AND USED BY THEM IN GLC WHERE THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AND MINISTERS AND BASTARDS IN WHITE ARE CHAIRMAN AND CEOS?

EVEN IF NO ELECTIONS, SINKIES MUST SPEAK WITH ALL THEIR FRIENDS AND ALL THEY KNOW

STAND UP TO THAT BASTARD LKY AND PAP BLOODSUCKERS

STAND WITH ALL THOSE THAT FIGHT BASTARD LKY

OR STAND UP YOURSELF IN YOUR CONSTITUENCY

DONT BE BULLIED BY THAT FUCKING COWARD LKY USING HIS CORRUPT KANGAROO COURTS AND ALL THAT HE CAN, AND WILL THROW AT YOU


You will fear them only if you allow yourself to fear them.

Just because THEY want you to fear them, must you fear those fucking bastards?

THEY ONLY CAN RULE YOU , AND BLED YOU , THROUGH FEAR AND INTIMIDATION.


SINKIES,

FIND YOUR BALLS AND STAND UP TO THEM.
THEY WILL THEN FEAR YOU.

AND YOU REGAIN YOUR MONEY AND YOUR FUTURE AND YOUR CHILDREN FUTURE.

DO NOT LET OUR MONEY GO TO FUND PAP DOGS FRENCH COOKING LESSONS

DO NOT DIE IN OLD FOLK HOMES IN JB.

FIND YOUR BALLS AND STAND UP TO THEM





LEE KUAN YEW LOST AND LOST DUNNO HOW MANY BILLIONS IN TEMASICK AND GIC

EVEN MORE BILLIONS HE THREW AWAY TO HIS DOGS AND COCKROACHES SO THEY CAN TAKE FRENCH COOKING LESSONS

LKY NEED MORE BILLIONS FROM SINKIES WHO VOTED FOR HIM AND FROM THOSE WHO VOIDED THEIR VOTES

EVEN IF YOU VOTE AGAINST HIM, NO DIFFERENCE.

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT AS SINKIES DID NOT TRY HARD ENOUGH TO KICK OUT THAT VAMPIRE BASTARD LKY

SO EXPECT EVERYTHING IN SINGAPORE TO GO UP AND UP

BASTARD LKY NEED YOUR $$$$$

HE SCREW YOU AND DEMAND THAT YOU THANK HIM FOR HIS FUCKING 'SUBISIDIESD BULLSHIT' AND 'AFFORDABLE' CON-TALK.

GO ALL OUT TO KICK ALL THOSE BASTARDS OUT

ALL OF THEM