OPINION: Reviewing ministerial salaries, seven lessons from the private sector — Mak Yuen Teen

The Malaysian Insider, 26 May 2011
One, have an independent ministerial pay committee to oversee ministerial pay policy and levels (members must be independent and perceived to be so).
Two, adopt a small number of macro performance measures that capture overall performance in a holistic way (such as average GDP growth, average wage growth, Gini coefficient and unemployment rate) and micro performance measures that directly reflect a particular minister’s performance (such as traffic accident rates, average expressway speeds, admission rates of Singaporeans into local universities, percentage of low-income families owning HDB flats). Full story