How much a country’s leader is paid compared to GDP per person?
July 6th, 2010 by Farah
Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister of Singapore, tops the list of selected leaders’ salaries with a salary of more than 40 times the city-state’s GDP per person.
Raila Odinga, Kenya’s prime minister, rejected the pay increase he was awarded by the country’s parliament last week. MPs had granted Mr Odinga a rise to nearly $430,000 a year and this boost would place Mr Odinga among the highest-paid political leaders in the world. It would be some 240 times greater than the country’s GDP per person (measured on a purchasing-power parity basis).
Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India, reaffirms his reputation for saintliness by taking a modest sum from Indian taxpayers.
-Economist.com, 5 July 2010
