Annual salaries of highest paid PMs/Presidents

December 10, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Chief Editor, Current Affairs 

The Mango Blog recently made a post on the annual salaries of some of the highest paid Prime Ministers and heads of state around the world, in comparison with the GDP of their respective countries.

The original post can be accessed here.

Since the original post only showed separate graphs of the annual salaries and the GDP of the respective countries, I thought it might be a good idea to construct a graph of annual salary per unit of GDP, since that would give a clearer indication as to how well paid each PM or head of state is in relation to the size of the economy he or she is managing:

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6 Comments on Annual salaries of highest paid PMs/Presidents

  1. AngryAngMo on Wed, 10th Dec 2008 12:04 pm

    2. would be interesting to have a graph, Annual Salary – Poulation (in millions)

  2. Singapore’s economy: Has the Government been caught with its pants down? : Sgpolitics.net on Sun, 1st Feb 2009 6:06 am

    3. [...] Yet today, even after the recent pay reduction, our Ministers are still drawing salaries several hundred times that of their US counterparts when compared to the size of the nation’s GDP (see here). [...]

  3. Singapore’s economy: Has the Government been caught with its pants down? | The Reform Party on Tue, 3rd Feb 2009 6:24 am

    4. [...] Yet today, even after the recent pay reduction, our Ministers are still drawing salaries several hundred times that of their US counterparts when compared to the size of the nation’s GDP (see here). [...]

  4. Singapore’s economy: Has the Government been caught with its pants down? : The Singapore Enquirer: An independent online news daily on Tue, 3rd Feb 2009 2:37 pm

    5. [...] Yet today, even after the recent pay reduction, our Ministers are still drawing salaries several hundred times that of their US counterparts when compared to the size of the nation’s GDP (see here). [...]

  5. Singapore’s economy: Has the Government been caught with its pants down? : Ng E-Jay’s domain on Mon, 23rd Feb 2009 2:11 pm

    6. [...] Yet today, even after the recent pay reduction, our Ministers are still drawing salaries several hundred times that of their US counterparts when compared to the size of the nation’s GDP (see here). [...]

  6. A consolidation of my views on Budget 2009 : Ng E-Jay’s domain on Mon, 23rd Feb 2009 2:12 pm

    7. [...] Yet today, even after the recent pay reduction, our Ministers are still drawing salaries several hundred times that of their US counterparts when compared to the size of the nation’s GDP (see here). [...]

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