President Salary Not Enough!!!!
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Heheh.... Note the Red Wordings...
Category : Prime Ministers Office
So 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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howcome their pay increases but not their fellow citizens ah??If the citizens pay don't rise, where to find money to rise their pay??
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replied from a standard template?
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our salaries are pegged to the lower 20% of the population. thats why it tends to remain stagnant or go down.Originally posted by *Lord Kang*:howcome their pay increases but not their fellow citizens ah??If the citizens pay don't rise, where to find money to rise their pay??
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no mah..we are the taxpayer mah..so in order to rise their pay, first of all our pay must increase then income tax or whatever tax can be rise in order to facilitate their pay rise...haha...it is a vicious cycle mah..Originally posted by dragg:our salaries are pegged to the lower 20% of the population. thats why it tends to remain stagnant or go down. -
who are they comparing the president's job to? are there full time ribbon cutters around?
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In my opinion, our MM, & PM looks to possess more POWER than our President.
I'd call Mr Bush, a real president. Love or hate him... -
Not in ur opinion, that's the fact in Singapore. But then the roles of the President in US and here are different, so cannot direct compare lah.Originally posted by ShutterBug:In my opinion, our MM, & PM looks to possess more POWER than our President.
I'd call Mr Bush, a real president. Love or hate him...
I just dun understand why the President and political office holders' salaries must be in line with professions in the private sector. Which other country practise that? -
it's never enough...
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*groans*
How many prata he wants? -
2 Banana Prata!!Originally posted by laurence82:*groans*
How many prata he wants? -
If you deserve a higher salary than what you are getting based on prevailing market rates, what's stopping you from switching jobs? If your skills deserve a higher pay overseas, you can work overseas.
Or is this really an issue about how ministers and the president's salary should be pegged? Do you object to pegging their salaries to those of top CEOs? If so, what would be reasonable? Pegging their salaries to the bottom 20% of CEOs?
Perhaps a more reasonable approach is to peg it to the average salaries of western leaders...eg. France, UK, Japan, US or perhaps peg it to the salaries of the Hong Kong SAR leaders. -
no wonder they have president charity! wonder where these money goes to?
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dunno how many time must i offer my services... but still no one pm me leh...
i offer again ok.... i am willing to be a president or MP just for 3 meal per day of rice plus luncheon meat... and my performance will be judge by the citizen.. if i cannot performance i will step down....
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i vote for you..Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):dunno how many time must i offer my services... but still no one pm me leh...
i offer again ok.... i am willing to be a president or MP just for 3 meal per day of rice plus luncheon meat... and my performance will be judge by the citizen.. if i cannot performance i will step down.... 
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But from what I know, SG's President and high status figures are having very high salaries as compared to other country.
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So.....if these bankers or whatsoever drawing 20 millions or 30 millions a year. Then, our dear president and the cabinet mini-star also will draw the same...or to act like kind men maybe drawing half and they will still say oh... the officials salaries are still far lag behind the bench mark set.Originally posted by mhcampboy:Heheh.... Note the Red Wordings...
So how? You guys think must increase or not their pay?
fark them -
Must give them...
give them one tight slap... -
CCB! They r really greedy pigs. Take so much and still have the cheeks to say they r lagging behind the benchmark. I really want to bomb them all.
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At times, CEOs have their salary pegged to their performance, or increased as reward for their work
Similarly, its strange government ministers peg their salaries to CEOs' rather than to their own performance...
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thanks.. now who else voting for mi .. i need that magical 66.6% lehOriginally posted by Rejected:i vote for you.. 
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They should only peg their pay to top doctors in Singapore's restructured hospitals.
Doctors do their service their - while paid fairly well - it pales in comparison to private sector docs.
The reason they do this? PUBLIC SERVICE.
How can our politicians forget that their SERVICE is for the PUBLIC?
And it is a CALLING?
So like docs if they cannot do more public service then they go private, right? - and see if they truly can get the much vaunted pay we see in real-life.
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That's a dangerous statement to make in the post 9/11 world.Originally posted by NUS_Superst@r:CCB! They r really greedy pigs. Take so much and still have the cheeks to say they r lagging behind the benchmark. I really want to bomb them all.
I think you meant fart in their face? -
money is never enough
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wanna be rich...?
be a politician...