Let just analyse the fact. A CEO in a statutory board in a ministry easily earns over $30,000 per month. Hence if we are to extrapolate higher, the top 2 civil servants i.e. the Deputy Secretary and the Permanent Secretary should earn at least $40,000 and $50,000 per month respectively. Hence if the notion is that a Parliament Secretary should get a higher salary than the Permanent Secretary as it is now, the new salaries of the political holders higher up should not be discounted by as much.
However I would think that Mr Gerard's committee would as tasked by Prime Minister Lee, did some discount to the politcal salaries in the review this time round. Hence:
I believe the new salary of Parliamentary Secretary will be pegged to the pay of a CEO in a Statutory Board and the new Salary of a Minister of State will be pegged to the salary of a Permanent Secretary; I think the new political salaries will be as follows:
a) Parliamentary Secretary: $30,000 per month (approximately pegged to the salary of a CEO of a Statutory Board)
b) Senior Parliamentary Secretary: $40,000 per month (approximately pegged to the salary of a Deputy Secretary of a Ministry)
c) Minister-of-State: $50,000 per month (approximately pegged to the salary of a Permanent Secretary of a Ministry or Chairman of a Statutory Board)
d) Senior Minister-of-State: $60,000 per month
e) Minister: $70,000 per month
f) Prime Minister: $80,000 per month
d) President: $75,000 per month
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