Ministerial Salaries: Shifting Positions

#1 Ministerial Salaries: Shifting Positions

 

Observe how WP shifted their positions.

2006 General Elections
Low Thia Khiang: Ministers' salary to be salary of poorest 20% of Singaporeans multiplied by 100 ( = $80,000 a month).

2007 in parliament
Sylvia Lim: Remuneration of political office holders to be benchmarked to that of leaders in foreign countries.


2012 in parliament 
Gerald Giam: Proposed benchmarking against the 'elitist' MX9 (superscale), the pay scale of the top 1.2% of senior civil servants and pegged to the private sector. His proposal is even HIGHER than the review committee's.