OPINION: Tis the season for a pay hike - mrbrown

CNNGo.com, 18 Mar 2011
The President of Singapore is getting his salary, ahem, adjusted from S$3,376,800 (US$2,634,931) to S$4,267,500 (US$3,329,996).
That’s a 26 percent jump.
My fingers are cramping up just typing those numbers. Even the currency conversion website I typed these numbers into said “Daaaaaamn, that’s a lotta numbers!”
In the newspapers, this piece of news was tucked away at the bottom left-hand corner of the page, under the headline “President’s pay approved.” Full story