Pay rise recommended for President, MPs PLUS 'Councillors under pressure from service delivery protests must earn more'
A STATUTORY body that determines the salaries of elected public office bearers wants municipal councillors to earn more.
Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers chairman Judge Willie Seriti has released his proposals on salary increases for President Jacob Zuma, ministers, MPs and councillors.
The proposals of a 5,5% increase for the 2012-2013 financial year still have to be approved by Zuma.
Seriti said councillors, whose jobs placed them at the brunt of often violent service deliver protests, were lowly paid.
They pocket a total annual salary package of R380,000, which could rise to R401,000.
Zuma's salary would rise from R2.4-million to R2.6-million while pay packages for his deputy, Kgalema Motlanthe, and national speaker Max Sisulu, increase to R2.3-million.
Ministers' salaries will rise to just above R2-million, deputy ministers to R1.6-million and backbencher MPs to R889,000.
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng's salary will be R2.3-million, with judges earning just over R1.5-million. A junior magistrate gets R709,000 and a chief magistrate just under R1-million.
Big bucks for government big wigs
Pay rise recommended for President, MPs PLUS 'Councillors under pressure from service delivery protests must earn more'
A STATUTORY body that determines the salaries of elected public office bearers wants municipal councillors to earn more.
Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers chairman Judge Willie Seriti has released his proposals on salary increases for President Jacob Zuma, ministers, MPs and councillors.
The proposals of a 5,5% increase for the 2012-2013 financial year still have to be approved by Zuma.
Seriti said councillors, whose jobs placed them at the brunt of often violent service deliver protests, were lowly paid.
They pocket a total annual salary package of R380,000, which could rise to R401,000.
Zuma's salary would rise from R2.4-million to R2.6-million while pay packages for his deputy, Kgalema Motlanthe, and national speaker Max Sisulu, increase to R2.3-million.
Ministers' salaries will rise to just above R2-million, deputy ministers to R1.6-million and backbencher MPs to R889,000.
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng's salary will be R2.3-million, with judges earning just over R1.5-million. A junior magistrate gets R709,000 and a chief magistrate just under R1-million.
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