Mar
31
Financial Times of the salaries of top world leaders
to the list of the most highly paid world of political leaders, compiled by the newspaper Financial Times, was composed of only the leaders of the countries – members of the Group of Eight. Among them, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev won the last position, while U.S. President Barack Obama, potesniv UK premiere, the first one. In reality, the very first and most recent position in the ranking of Singapore took the chapters and Afghanistan, respectively.
According to the newspaper Sight , B. Obama, so jealous propulsive his plan of saving the U.S. economy worth $ 787.2 billion, suddenly overtaken all G8 leaders to fit their own salaries.
A further one and a half years ago, first place in the rating of Financial Times was British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, with an annual income $ 237 thousand and he was the best-paid leader in Europe. However, the position on the world stage gave way, and now all ahead of B. Obama to pay $ 400 thousand a year.
As the edition, This amount is five times the income of the Russian President. However, wage D. Medvedev, and once the President, now Prime Minister, leader of United Russia, Vladimir Putin, has been the lowest among the world leaders – 67 thousand euros, or $ 85 thousand a year.
second place after B. Obama won the Prime Minister Brian Cowen of Ireland – 257 thousand euros ($ 326 thousand)
compared with those of two years annual income of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has doubled and amounted to 240 thousand euros ($ 304 thousand dollars). He took third place in the ranking.
last three positions in the list of most-paid world leaders shared the German Chancellor Angela Merkel (228 thousand Euro ) Gordon Brown (199 thousand euros) and Dmitry Medvedev (67 thousand euro).
Although British Prime and both rolled to the salary of Olympus, Financial Times was able to point out that perhaps G. Brown needed to receive even less. A good example for Brown would Bolivian President Evo Morales, who cut his salary by more than half and began to receive the entire $ 1.8 thousand per month, when he came to power in 2006. As a result, the vote of confidence he received the support of 67% electorate, – writes the FT.
Today most paid leader in the world is the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Xian Lun. His salary can range from 2 to 2.5 million dollars a year. But at the lowest wages in the world leader is the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai. According to official data, it receives less than $ 500 per month.
edition of classification using data from the German Government, BBC, Hay Group, newspapers Irish Independent, and Arguments and Facts.
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