Sydney Morning Herald, 30 Dec 2008
EVERYONE knows politicians aren't in it for the money.
But the aspiring, and skint, world leader who is looking for a country to run in these belt-tightening times should head for Asia, where the salaries far exceed anything even the White House can manage.
Singapore's Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, earns the equivalent of $3.8 million a year. That's six times more than president-elect Barack Obama will earn when he takes office in the United States next month, nine times more than Britain's Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and almost 12 times more than Kevin Rudd.
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