RM3.12mil annually for the ministers

wow! PM and all the other ministers received a 10% pay hike. the PM who earlier received RM20,751.90 will now receive RM22,826.85.

wow! do all govt. departments or only the minister’s pay-rise based on percentage? private firms should also have increase based on percentage of the staff’s salary. as it is the private companies i worked for previously, plus the current one, they gave increment as they like, certainly not based on percentage. one company simply give RM20 increement each year, another RM30, another RM50, or RM100… like that eh, how can i become a millionaire? 🙂

the following shows how much the new salary will be after the pay-hike. this is copied from lone’s blog. for comparision of present and after-hike salary, hop to his blog. he talks about perks and allowances too.

Parliamentarians
Prime Minister – RM22,826.65
Deputy PM – RM18,168.15
Opposition Leader – RM3,846.59
Ministers – RM14,907.20
Deputy Ministers – RM10,0847.65
Parliamentary Sec – RM7,187.40
Speaker – RM14,219.92
Deputy Speaker – RM9,680
MPs – RM6,508.59
Senators – RM4,112.79

hmm… why is it opposition leader get so little?? i’m sure he can’t survive with such salary!