16) Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland – $188,000
Olafur Ragnar Grimsson assumed the office of the President of Iceland on August 1 1996. His annual income is $188,000. The monthly salary of the President of Iceland is 2,048,229 ISK.
17.) Park Geun-hye, President of South Korea – $187,000
The South Korean president took a 1.7% (3,851,000 won) increase to 196,404,000 won (approximately $187,000).
18. Ma Ying-jeou, President of Taiwan – $184,000
The Chinese President, Xi Jinping’s salary is just about 20% of what his Taiwanese counterpart Ma Ying-jeou earns.
19) Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands – $170,000
Mark Rutte has been the Prime Minister of the Netherlands since October 14 2010. He earns $170,000 annually. The salary of the Prime Minister of Netherlands is €144,000 (including €7887.24 expenses).
20.) Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya – $132,000
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta took a 20% pay cut, his basic salary is now $132,000 per annum while the former president Mwai Kibaki earned $427,886 per annum. That was staggering 240 times that of an average Kenyan citizen. According to Forbes, Kenyatta has a net worth of $500 million.
Looking at the above – mentioned numbers, it is clear that political leaders are adequately compensated for their service to their nation. It is really unfortunate that in spite of this some of them fall into greed and corruption.
lechaise says
David Cameron of the UK gets around 235,000 a year, if you add his MP salary as well it equates to around 250,000. Any particular reason he’s been left off the list?
John R Potter says
check number 13,
John R Potter says
Number 13 is
Cameron at 215,000
Joseph Kivaya says
The former president of Kenya is not Raila Odinga, this makes me doubt the entire article.
ReallyReallyBigMan says
I can’t believe the average American makes over 50,000 dollars a year! That’s outrageous!
akash says
why so??