Category : Prime Ministers OfficeSo how? You guys think must increase or not their pay?
Subject : Over pay President
Suggestion : Why pay the president so much money.?When we are talking about cost cutting wadge cutting wadge freeze.?No job.
Do he really need such high pay.?
while we at the private sector, we have to worry every day when will we be X. And when will they cut our salary.
You all in the goverment sector only know how to increase your salary. you job is so secure until the next election.?
Date of Reply : 13/03/2006
Reply : Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for your feedback. This is a clarification.
The salaries of the President and political office holders are pegged to the salaries of six professions (namely bankers, lawyers, accountants, engineers, MNCs and local manufacturers) in the private sector. The salaries are reviewed annually to ensure that they are in line with prevailing salary levels, and reflective of the general economic climate. For instance, when the economy was not performing well between 2001 and 2003, the salaries of office holders and senior civil servants, including the President, were cut twice (in Nov 2001 and Jul 2003). Although these cuts have been restored (in two steps in Jul 2004 and Jan 2005), their salaries are still lagging behind the salary benchmarks at this point.
In Singapore, office holders and civil servants are paid a realistic and clean wage, with no hidden perks or hidden benefits. Their salary packages are formally pegged to private sector salary benchmarks, established and endorsed by the Parliament after extensive debates in 1994 and in 2000. Our principle of paying competitive and clean wages has enabled Singapore to sustain a competent, honest and corruption-free political system and a first class public service.
Stella Kao
Asst Director, Communications & International Relations
Public Service Division
Prime MinisterÂ’s Office
Tel: 63327198
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