[Brief] World's Highest-Paid Leader Singapore PM Gets $1 Million Pay Raise
[Brief] BBC News reported on September 8 that Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will receive another salary increase, bringing his annual pay to 3.6 million Singapore dollars, approximately 2.8 million US dollars, with the annual increment equivalent to roughly 1 million US dollars. Wong will continue to firmly hold the position of the world’s highest-paid national leader. The Singapore government explained that the salary adjustment is intended to ensure that political leaders’ pay maintains a reasonable proportion relative to senior private sector managers, in order to preserve the government’s talent competitiveness. The decision has triggered a new round of discussion in Singapore about the reasonableness of public sector compensation. ...