Parliament approves increase in President’s salary

• afan

  12 Mar 11, 14:05

  Parliament approves increase in President’s salary

  By Faris – March 11th, 2011

  
  

  Parliament has approved a 26 per cent increase in the President’s salary as well as higher salaries for his personal staff for the fiscal year of 2010.

  The President’s salary, also known as the Privy Purse, is now set at S$4,267,500, up from $3,376,800.

  The amount for staff salaries is increased to $4,532,400 or $473,600 higher than that of the year before.

  The President’s entertainment allowance remains at $73,000.

  The revision is part of an overall increase in the manpower expenditure for the Office of the Istana, which is staffed by 62 personnel.

  On Thursday, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who proposed that the House support the change, said this caters for the “recruitment of an additional staff officer to support the work of the Council of Presidential Advisers and a butler manager to meet increased demand for butler services at the Istana, and to meet the higher variable payments on account of a strong economic growth”.

  The President’s salary rises in tandem with that of political, judicial and civil service appointment holders.

  However, the expenditure for Istana expenses was cut by $25,300 to $2,068,300 to “reflect savings” on these and other ad hoc spending, said Mr Tharman. The total sum allocated for the Civil List is $11.6 million.

  For the next financial year, Mr Tharman said this overall sum will remain unchanged, but the allocation for the President’s salary and allowances will drop to $3,782,000 due to lower variable payments anticipated. An extra $610,000 will be set aside for the Presidential Swearing-in Ceremony which is likely to be in late August.

• afan

  12 Mar 11, 14:14

  Double standard - citizens of Singapore are told by pap to accept low pay.    Endless increase in cost of living with low pay how to cope????     They are oppressing kings and queens.  

  More widening of income gap in Singapore.

• Vote PAP OUT to Save SG

  12 Mar 11, 14:19

  vote the PAP out in coming general elections.

• Ä«Õß:¸ïÀë

  12 Mar 11, 14:20

  

  HA HA HA HA HA HA HA..................

  HO SAY......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• afan

  12 Mar 11, 14:23

  Originally posted by Vote PAP OUT to Save SG:

  vote the PAP out in coming general elections.

  
  Yes, sir!

• Singapore AFOL

  12 Mar 11, 15:28

  Future president must be happy.

• Junyang700

  12 Mar 11, 15:40

  I like the subtitles.. hor say... LOL..

• sir_peanuts

  12 Mar 11, 17:11

  let's vote for a next president who does it for free!
• Singapore AFOL

  12 Mar 11, 17:15

  Originally posted by sir_peanuts:

  let’s vote for a next president who does it for free!

  
  He should be from IMH one.

  President of IMH.

   

• Ice kosong

  12 Mar 11, 17:40

  hmm.... 26% salary increment for seein no evil, speakin no evil n hearin no evil.

  It pays to keep his mouth ,ears and eyes shut

• afan

  12 Mar 11, 17:48

  Originally posted by Ice kosong:

  hmm.... 26% salary increment for seein no evil, speakin no evil n hearin no evil.

  It pays to keep his mouth ,ears and eyes shut

  
  Probably the thunderstrike party has more dirt under the carpet this time.   To prevent the dirt from being exposed they decided to give him increment.

• Medicated Oil

  12 Mar 11, 18:00

  He will not benefited from this increment.

  He already benefited from his last few increment and can buy roti prata for all his homeland people.

  This increment is for the next guy.

  There is only a few guys who will be pushed up for this rubber stamp role.

  He is eating, sleeping, and shitting with all expenses paid by us.

  Why did he need such a huge salary when he dun even have any say in anything ?

• FirePig

  12 Mar 11, 22:12

  I urge all Singaporeans, do think about this... In your working life, you may be getting 30% increment when you job hop or move up the ranks. But up to a certain pay scale the % tapers off. $3.3 mil to $4.2 mil for shaking hands, taking pictures and flying to other countries to chit chat??? It's ridiculous!
  
  NOMINAL GDP is 14.5% BUT REAL GDP is 1.5%! It just means high inflation! And they dare to pay themselves a 30% increment? They can say next year it's $1 as variable is expected to be lower, but that means nothing cos the bloody pay comes from taxes which is carried by everyone in Singapore! They boost the nominal GDP by inflating prices and in return we suffer twice! Higher prices and more taxes!
  
  This is really getting out of hand! They need to be managed. Please vote wisely!!! This is the first time I asked of others to vote not for the PAP!

• SunsetWaves

  12 Mar 11, 23:55

  i want his job !!!!!

• Ice kosong

  13 Mar 11, 01:03

  hope he keeps his nose shut too

• FirePig

  13 Mar 11, 12:03

  Pls justify for the pay increase.

• Medicated Oil

  13 Mar 11, 12:08

  Next move - 30% pay increase for all Millionsters and Million Puppies.

  Reason - they have achieved their KPI and Ah Kong say OK.

  Not Happy ? Too bad cos that is nothing you can do but pay for their millionaire life.

• charlize

  13 Mar 11, 12:16

  This is totally unexpected.

   

  Shocking.

   

  What were the ministers and MPs thinking?

• jgho83

  13 Mar 11, 12:23

  they wanna piss citizens even more when elections is coming? 

• Rock^Star

  13 Mar 11, 12:30

  Pushed thru parliament with little opposition.That's good right? That's how we pushed thru so many policies over the years and became what we are today. Imagine if there's a lot of opposition, PM would have to think about how to fix them, instead of thinking what's good for singapore. Haha.

• Rock^Star

  13 Mar 11, 12:30

  This pay increase is to shut the next president up.

• Medicated Oil

  13 Mar 11, 12:56

  Some one was mentioning if the one below the prata man want to increase their pay.

  They have to increase the prata man first before they increase their own pay.

  But, it is not a right time to do it for themselves.

  As for the prata man, he dunno what is going on so nothing to talk about.

• Ä«Õß:¸ïÀë

  13 Mar 11, 13:03

  got extra money, then take lah..... ask question for wat?

  Not as if the money is ' dirty '.......

• NG QIBO AARON AUBREY

  13 Mar 11, 13:12

  i agree with the increase

  to prevent corruption. it is not easy to be a president of singapore you know.

• Singapore AFOL

  13 Mar 11, 13:18

  Originally posted by NG QIBO AARON AUBREY:

  i agree with the increase

  to prevent corruption. it is not easy to be a president of singapore you know.

  
  There's no limit to a person's greed.

  A greedy person will take bribes even If they are highly paid.

  I do not agree with pay rise.

  Furthermore, a higher pay may result in politicians whose aim is money not serving the interests of Singaporeans.