Reply to "Crunching those salary numbers"

BASIC ANNUAL SALARY

[A] CABINET

Prime Minister .............................. $20,580,000

3 Vice Presidents @ $11,135,064 ..... $33,405,192

11 Ministers @ $10,439,124 ...........$114,830,364

8 Junior Ministers @ $8,364,492 .......$66,915,936

          Total ..... $235,731,492

[B] PRESIDENCY

President ....................

Minister J. Harmon ....... $10,439,124

Minister R. Trotman ......   $8,364,492

Minister W. Felix .............$8,364,492

          Total ... $27,168,108

[A] + [B] = $262,899,600

GILBAKKA'S OBSERVATIONS:

[1] 27 coalition ministers are now paid a combined annual salary of $262,899,600 so that they won't "thief all over the place."

[2] The numbers above represent basic salary, excluding allowances.

[3] I don't know President Granger's basic salary.

[4] In other threads I notice some members are converting these numbers and comparing Guyana's ministers' salaries to Canadian ministers' salaries. How about comparing Guyanese public servants' salaries to Canadian public servants' salaries?

[5] I understand that local government elections will be held next April, after the national budget is passed in parliament. I want to believe that the coalition will give public servants, nurses, teachers, policemen etc big salary increases so they too won't have to "thief all over the place."

Overall, I think the coalition has slipped up here and there but I am hopeful that better must come before 2020.