World's Prime Minister/President Salary

deepak.c SG

Singapore:

Income per year: SG$12,000
Income Taxes: 0%
GST: 7%
Spending Power After GST: SG$11,160 [SG$12,000 x 93%]

Australia:
(waiter or retail staff based on 3 times earnings of Singaporean only, not 5 times which is the higher bound)

Income per year: AU$36,000
Income Taxes: up to AU$6,000 = AU$0; AU$6,001 to AU$25,000 = AU$2,850; AU$25,001 to AU$36,000 = AU$3,300
Australia Personal Tax Rates
Total Income Taxes: AU$6,150 [AU$ 0 + AU$ 2,850 + AU$ 3,300]
Income after Income Taxes: AU$29,850
GST: 10%
Spending Power After GST: AU$26,865 [AU$29,850 x 90%]

An average waiter in Australia will have a spending power of AU$26,865, while a Singaporeans waiter will have only SG$11,160. Why do you think when we go for holidays overseas, we can afford less than an equivalent GDP per capita country like Australia or New Zealand.

You do the maths and tell me who is actually better off after personal taxes and GST.

Singaporeans or Australians???

Though Australia might have a higher personal tax structure, but their average wages are 3 to 5 times of Singaporeans. Even after deducting high taxes and GST, they still do end up with more money in the pocket than an average Singaporean. Moreover, they have no need to pay for healthcare and basic education.

Australian Wages
Bartending/waiting tables: $15 - $25 per hour (casual)
Chef: $700 - $800 per week (full time)
Retail sales assistant: $15 - $25 per hour (casual)
Check out operators and cashiers: $500 - $700 per week (full time)
Building/labouring: $650 - $850 per week (full time)
Engineering: $800 - $1500 per week (full time)
Hairdressing: $530 - $650 per week (full time)
Secretarial/administration: $600 - $700 per week (full time)
Child care: $18 - $20 per hour (casual)

http://www.sgforums.com/forums/10/topics/298547

How come your brain doesn't seem like it's capable of absorbing new facts?

This is the umpteen times that this point has been brought up to you.

Hitman3 SG

MAYBE LIONNOISY IS WERKIN IN OZ NOW.

deepak.c SG

jobless rate

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/Economics/GDP-Growth.aspx?Symbol=SGY

Jobless rate amongst Singapore residents (PR and citizens) is 5%. Why would I want to include employed foreign labour force in my unemployed calculation? To reduce the citizens' unemployment rate? To trick simple minded Singaporeans into believing that we are having less unemployed than they would like to think?

Unemployment

5. Preliminary estimates show that the seasonally adjusted overall unemployment rate rose slightly to 3.4% in September 2009 from 3.3% in June 2009. Among the resident labour force, the rate increased to 5.0% in September 2009. This followed the decline from 4.8% in March 2009 to 4.6% in June 2009, when some residents then had deferred job search and pursued courses amid the difficult job market. The unemployment rates were still below the peak (overall: 4.8%; resident: 6.2%) experienced in September 2003 (due to the SARS outbreak).

http://www.mom.gov.sg/publish/momportal/en/press_room/press_releases/2009/20091030-employment.html

Unemployment rate remained at 5.8%

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/mf/6202.0

Like I said before, high GDP per capita or low GDP per capita doesn't clearly represent the living standards in Singapore. Singapore's GDP per capita is like what you said higher than Japan and Switzerland, but salaries are like 3rd World Countries like China and India, while cost of living is that of Japan.

How much do workers in Japan and Switzerland get compared to Singapore?

Seriously, all these facts brought up in previous discussion doesn't register in that huge mane of yours, because you bring up the exact same debunked points all over again.

Hitman3 SG

JUST THINK OF HIS WORDS N ANALYZE IT ALL.

FROM EATING AT EXPENSIVE HOTELS N ONLY RICH PEOPLE LIKE HIM BEING ABLE TO ENTER IT.AFTER EVEN WERKIN OZ AS A cleaner($900/week)he would come baCK as some vip.

tech fitters($27/hr or minimum $1700/week)based on how closely related u are from them in redneck countryside.

deepak.c SG

JUST THINK OF HIS WORDS N ANALYZE IT ALL.

FROM EATING AT EXPENSIVE HOTELS N ONLY RICH PEOPLE LIKE HIM BEING ABLE TO ENTER IT.AFTER EVEN WERKIN OZ AS A cleaner($900/week)he would come baCK as some vip.

tech fitters($27/hr or minimum $1700/week)based on how closely related u are from them in redneck countryside.

When my friend migrated to Oz ages ago, he told me stacking shelves in the supermarket gives him A$15 an hour. How much does a supermarket stacker in Singapore get now?

Hitman3 SG

yes,,,,,thats minimum wage.............n they fought for it...from industrial strikes to complete economy production halt so they can get $1.00 increment even.

most of the indianns used to b indian nationals werkin in spore .they all threw their spore pr away n came to oz n werk as fitters n eletricians.all indians n not a single sporean chinese.but as my features dont look european i was turned away 3 times.but i got the job when i emailed my resume 4th time.

they played dirty n i was pushed outa the job after spending less than 2 months under poor guidance or sheer misguidance.

they only let high payin jobs thats worth fighting for to their own types even though their skills n own race people might not be licensed,lied bout having license and can be treated as part of family.

spore is paid less because foreigners do jobs while the sporeans go on strike.so the foreigners in spore are also to be blamed.they are ammo to kill us when werkin in spore and when there is opportunity to go to better places,,,they are d ones to go first.

charlize SG

When my friend migrated to Oz ages ago, he told me stacking shelves in the supermarket gives him A$15 an hour. How much does a supermarket stacker in Singapore get now?

That's the way things work in singapore.

In Australia, probably not many people want to stack shelves in the supermarket, so the supermarket has to increase wages to attract workers to do the work.

Compare that to singapore, say bus drivers. Nobody wants to work as a bus driver because of low wages and long hours. Unlike Australia, where the supermarket has to up wages to attract people, the situation here is such that the bus company sets the lowest wage they are prepared to pay, then imports cheap foreign workers who will work at that wage.

Hitman3 SG

i have encountered(in AU$):

1)north vietnamese border guards who now work in oz on 5 year work visa with $1000/week salary or $4000/mth(no english language n needs vietnamese interepreter)

2)south koreans who work in oz for 1 year earning $900/week or $700/week (after tax deductions)

3)african refugees who werk n earn as above

4)welders,fitters and painters earning more than the above.

i have a salary list from employer in the past.

5)the bank fixed deposit interest rate is 6.4%/year if u place 5k and above with their banks for 4 years

6)basic food is priced ok bt if bought at discounts as its fresher than spore foodstuff anyday.eg lamb,pork,eggs

7)cars are cheap too

angel3070 SG

lionnoisy, how come you support such a party like PAP?

I am curious on that.

Atobe SG

do u believe SG has 25,000 regular SAF (paid with market salary ) and abt 25,000 NSF and abt 300,000 Op Ready NS?

What has the size of the SAF got to do with this thread about Singapore's PM and President's salary ?

Is that how the noisy pussy get a hard on to strut around to help itself to walk the talk as a deluded cat ?

25,000 regulars paid market salary ?

Which wet market are you referring to ?

Salary based on the PAP controlled NTUC negotiating Singaporean workers' wages at the Government influenced National Wage Council ?

If u dunt believe, u butter take the next plane to oz. Becos, SG, this tiny little red

dot, would be over ran by any Tom, Dick and Harry country in few hours.

Do you seriously believe that the SAF will not be over run by any determined Tom, Dick or Harry with the size of the SAF as it is ?

Even LKY will not be as deluded as the noisy pussy to strut around and thumb its nose at the World - with just 25,000 Regulars, 25,000 NSF and 300,000 Ops ready NS of which the noisy pussy can hardly be counted as its rank and file to be effective in any Ops ready condition.

If the real worth of the SAF is to be known, it is better for the noisy pussy to be less noisy and spend its time to educate itself with the virtue of Sun Tzu, and stop creating problems for Singapore and Singaporeans.

The Presidential Standard ( the red flag) would be changed to other countries' flag in any time, if u dunt believe SAF is a skinny tiger, not a paper tiger.

http://www.istana.gov.sg/CeremonyProtocol/index.htm

The Presidentail Standard can be changed by a simple Act of Parliament, when the next PM or President gets tired of the Red Color, and need not necessarily to any other country flag.

Afterall, the Red Color is a reflection of the true character of the Communist Autocrat that is determined to promote the ONE-Party Rule to have its hand controlling not only the Government bodies but also in all aspects of civic life in commerce, culture, law, education, social, and politics - that is similar to any Communist Country.

It is time for the noisy to wake itself from its monotonous syncophantic mindless noise that hypnotise its weak mind without any effort from its Master's Voice.

2.I am pity u. U better register a political party to fight in next GE,or join any opposition party,or else ,move to other countries asap.

Can the empathy of a noisy pussy be worth a gram of salt for all its worthles tears spilled ?

Can its worthless saltiness even make up for all the blood and sweat that so many generations have drained from their bodies to build a Singapore since trusting LKY in 1957, only to realise that all the hardwork is wasted when the hardearned monies are given to save foreign banks - while our poor suffer in silence ?

While our CPF is delayed till past age 65 to 85, we have the MM paid a pension at his official retirement age of 65, and to be paid an annual salary of S$2.0 million every year with the pension also paid at the same time.

Obviously, the noisy pussy will wish to have one more political party to be established and split the electorate even more, so as to give its MIW a better chance at the next election - why will the noisy pussy expect Singaporeans to be as stupid as itself ?

It is time for the noisy pussy to straigthen itself and look honestly at itself in the mirror before the mirror look back at the noisy pussy and show what the truth can be.

martial SG

Can we take all the money that Lee is earning and convert it to 1 cent coin and than use the coins to bury him alive?

whycannot SG

Could somebody pls explain to me why this type of things happened?

where is the safety procedure - sop/guidelines ?

Arapahoe SG

Other countries PM paid is peanut, they are not bother about the paid, those under table paid can anytime overtake their pay by a 1000 times, and that is why, most remain as PM, because being a PM in other countries, most likely you will retire as a billionaires even if you are caught and put in jail for a few months, after that, you are clear and enjoy as a billionaires

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Annonymous Agent 007 SG

Singapore Government Ministers are the highest paid in the world.

That's a given fact which nobody can deny.

While some Singaporeans are comfortable with it, the majority of us are not.

When Government Ministers pay themelves so obscenely with taxpayers money, citizens have the right to question / review their job performance :

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong - S$ 3.8 mil (approx USD 2.7 mil)

Can you honestly say to yourself that your life has been better, or that Singapore is a better place to live in today, since LHL took over as Prime Minister.... and specifically since April 2007 when he increased his own salary and that of his Ministers by 60 p/c ??

DPM + Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng - S$ 2.9 mil (approx USD 2.08 mil)

Here's a Minister who cannot keep a limping terrorist in jail. Cannot stop a limping terrorist from escaping to Malaysia and take NO RESPONSIBILITY whatsoever for the fiasco.

Lest we forget, this is the same Minister who opened the floodgates to FWs / FTs / PRs (even in a recession) to make our foreign population mix of 37 p/c the HIGHEST in the world.

National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan - S$ 2.7 mil (approx USD 1.94 mil)

"affrodable" and "subsidised" HDB apartments ??

HDB lost S$ 2 billion in 2008 ??

Do you think he is telling the truth or lying through his teeth ??

ps. In my opinion, this short arse is the worst Minister in the history of the Singapore Government.

PMO Minister Lim Boon Heng - S$ 2.7 mil (approx USD 1.94 mil)

I am still scratching my head on what he does to deserve his inflated salary...

PMO Minister Lim Swee Say - S$ 2.6 mil (approx USD 1.87 mil)

Upturn the downturn ??

Cheaper Better Faster ??

Great for coming up with kindergarten slogans.

Useless in his appointed role - fighting for worker's rights.

If he is any good, he should follow the example of the only MIW Minister who ever spoke up for workers' rights :

http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/magazine/2000/0310/nat.singapore.ongiv.html

Senior Ministers of State and Ministers of State - each getting between S$ 1.8 mil - S$ 1.5 mil (approx USD 1.29 mil - S$ 1.08 mil)

Come on... where is the justification for paying our most Junior Ministers more than 2 times the salaries of Barrack Obama, Gordon Brown, Nicholas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, Kevin Ruud, Hatoyama ??

2 x Higher than even the Chief executive of Hong Kong ??

Note: 1. The above pay of Singapore MIW Ministers does not include MP allowances, pensions and other sources of income such as Directorship, Chairmnship, Advisory, Consultancy, etc to Gov-linked and gov-related organisations or foreign MNCs such as Citigroup (for Lee Kuan Yew), etc.

Here's a snapshot of the salaries of leadres of other developed, non-corrupt countries :

United States
President Barak Obama: US$400,000, with US$50,000 expenses
Vice President Joe Biden: US$202,900
Cabinet Secretaries: US$157,000 - $186,600
Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton) - $186,600

United Kingdom
Prime Minister: $US279,000

Australia
Prime Minister: $US229,000

Hong Kong
Prime Minister: $US516,000

Japan
Prime Minister: $US243,000

Canada
Prime Minister: $US246,000

Germany
Prime Minister: $US303,000

France
Prime Minister: $US318,000

http://www.yeocheowtong.com/Salaries.html

Shotgun SG

Yes! Singapore win top 7 countries in the world!

Thats what you get when you have a lop-sided parliament.

angel7030 SG

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What to do? Most old uncles dun accept the truth.

angel7030 SG

Singapore Government Ministers are the highest paid in the world.

That's a given fact which nobody can deny.

While some Singaporeans are comfortable with it, the majority of us are not.

When Government Ministers pay themelves so obscenely with taxpayers money, citizens have the right to question / review their job performance :

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong - S$ 3.8 mil (approx USD 2.7 mil)

DPM + Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng - S$ 2.9 mil (approx USD 2.08 mil)

Here's a Minister who cannot keep a limping terrorist in jail. Cannot stop a limping terrorist from escaping to Malaysia and take NO RESPONSIBILITY whatsoever for the fiasco.

Lest we forget, this is the same Minister who opened the floodgates to FWs / FTs / PRs (even in a recession) to make our foreign population mix of 37 p/c the HIGHEST in the world.

National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan - S$ 2.7 mil (approx USD 1.94 mil)

"affrodable" and "subsidised" HDB apartments ??

HDB lost S$ 2 billion in 2008 ??

Do you think he is telling the truth or lying through his teeth ??

ps. In my opinion, this short arse is the worst Minister in the history of the Singapore Government.

PMO Minister Lim Boon Heng - S$ 2.7 mil (approx USD 1.94 mil)

I am still scratching my head on what he does to deserve his inflated salary...

PMO Minister Lim Swee Say - S$ 2.6 mil (approx USD 1.87 mil)

Upturn the downturn ??

Cheaper Better Faster ??

Great for coming up with kindergarten slogans.

Useless in his appointed role - fighting for worker's rights.

If he is any good, he should follow the example of the only MIW Minister who ever spoke up for workers' rights :

http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/magazine/2000/0310/nat.singapore.ongiv.html

Senior Ministers of State and Ministers of State - each getting between S$ 1.8 mil - S$ 1.5 mil (approx USD 1.29 mil - S$ 1.08 mil)

Come on... where is the justification for paying our most Junior Ministers more than 2 times the salaries of Barrack Obama, Gordon Brown, Nicholas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, Kevin Ruud, Hatoyama ??

2 x Higher than even the Chief executive of Hong Kong ??

Here's a snapshot of the salaries of leadres of other developed, non-corrupt countries :

United Kingdom
Prime Minister: $US279,000

Australia
Prime Minister: $US229,000

Hong Kong
Prime Minister: $US516,000

Japan
Prime Minister: $US243,000

Canada
Prime Minister: $US246,000

Germany
Prime Minister: $US303,000

France
Prime Minister: $US318,000

http://www.yeocheowtong.com/Salaries.html

the sponsorship from those USA corporation to Obama Coffer can be billions per corporation, so please lah, dun look at book value, be smart, add in the market value ya

Lionnosy SG

the sponsorship from those USA corporation to Obama Coffer can be billions per corporation, so please lah, dun look at book value, be smart, add in the market value ya

Please come up with the evidence / facts.

If you cannot do that then..

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angel7030 SG

Please come up with the evidence / facts.

If you cannot do that then..

this reply reflect that you Continue to stick your head in your ASS...........16 972 times...

Aiyo, corruption needs evidence want meh??? their own countries also cannot give evidences, how can i give evidence, i can only say that billions are pour in by business peoples and organisation to support presidential election campaign, and as for country like Korea, Taiwan, Jpan and lower like Malaysia, Mynama, indonesia etc etc etc...you use to hear the corruption only when they step down as PM or get exposed with billions of corruption up the left and right pockets, notice those malaysia and indonesia politicians love to wear those 4 pockets safari shirt, you can imagine how much is in each pocket...hehehe

Atobe SG

What to do? Most old uncles dun accept the truth.

The label "Attention Seeking WHORE" is most suitably applied to this Taiwanese "hum" for the following reasons -

firstly, its position as a whore is from its work to live off the flesh trade of Asian women that are promoted in the bar that it operates;

secondly, it is a daily exercise to spam its one liner of ignorance to draw attention to its presence, without making anything worthwhile to advance the discussion in the thread - except to make a prick of itself.

the sponsorship from those USA corporation to Obama Coffer can be billions per corporation, so please lah, dun look at book value, be smart, add in the market value ya

The ignorance of the "Attention Seeking Whore from Taiwan" is as revealing as its need to be controversial to attract attention to itself - simply to derail the thread.

If the political donations to Obama's coffer is billions per corporation - can it be less legitimate than the illegal earnings from the flesh trade that this Taiwanese whore makes a living from the flesh trade at its Bar ?

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