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Commentary: Ministers can be paid more, but link their salary to performance
Linking pay to performance will become more important if the current difficulty with getting top people in the private and public sector continues, says veteran newspaper editor Han Fook Kwang.
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PM Wong warns economic frustrations can deepen social, racial divisions in Singapore
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong says Singapore is not immune to such pressures, pointing to racist comments online and divisions between foreigners and Singaporeans.
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PAP government does not believe in using higher pay to entice candidates into politics: PM Wong
“No one should enter politics for the money,” says Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in the parliamentary debate about political salaries.
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Changes to Singapore’s political salary framework to be debated in parliament
The changes include a one-off pay increase of up to 9 per cent for political office holders and wider salary ranges for ministers.
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Commentary: To discuss ministerial salary increases, we need to start by being clear about opportunity costs
When too few capable leaders come forward, what Singapore loses in the long run cannot be easily remedied after the fact, says Christopher Gee from the Institute of Policy Studies.
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Higher ministerial pay may ease recruitment hurdle, but other deterrents remain: Analysts
Non-monetary factors such as loss of privacy are bigger deterrents to entering political life, say experts after the government’s first ministerial pay revision since 2011.
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Snap Insight: Political salaries review timely, but will it be enough to attract next generation of leaders?
There is also a cost to not attracting the talent needed to steer Singapore in more complicated times, says former Nominated Member of Parliament Nicholas Fang.
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Higher political salaries give ‘better chance’ of persuading capable Singaporeans to step forward: PM Wong
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong says he had personally approached several senior permanent secretaries and private-sector CEOs to join politics before the last General Election – and all of them turned him down.
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Ministerial salaries to increase by up to 9% to S$1.2m, lower than review committee’s recommendation
The new salaries will take effect from Oct 15 this year.
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PM Wong, Chan Chun Sing to address political salaries review in parliament
Singapore last adjusted the salaries of political office holders and parliamentarians in 2011.
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