About ministers high salary!

• boyish love

  3 May 06, 21:37

  If opposition minster successfully vote in, do u think they will volunteer to pass a law to cut down own salary?
  
  at the end, politics is a very high risk very high return investment. got guts join else be a pawn?
  
  do i habe an agreement to this view?
• caramon.

  3 May 06, 21:45

  1. Singapore Prime Minister's Basic Salary US$1,100,000 (SGD1,958,000) a year
  
  SG Minister's Basic: US$655,530 to US$819,124 (SGD1,166,844 to SGD1,458,040) a year
  
  2. United States of America President: US$200,000 Vice President: US$181,400
  
  Cabinet Secretaries: US$157,000
  
  3. United Kingdom Prime Minister: US$170,556 Ministers: US$146,299 Senior Civil Servants: US$262,438
  
  4. Australia Prime Minister: US$137,060 Deputy Prime Minister: US$111,439 Treasurer: US$102,682
  
  5. Hong Kong Chief Executive : US$416,615 Top Civil Servant: US$278,538 Financial Sec: US$315,077
  
  Source: Asian Wall Street Journal July 10 2000