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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
With Michelle Guthrie...a public servant... pulling around $1million PA...i.e. way more the P.M's salary ....I suspect Auntie can afford it, hence it's likely a case of a "Yes Minister" culture...aka the hospital without any patients  preventing any serious production. |
How is that a fair comparison? We all know pollies are paid less than CEOs: money is not supposed to be the motivation for entering politics. A fairer comparison is with the salaries of other media CEOs, and by that metric the salary looks reasonable. It's at the lower end of the range, above that of CEOs of regional media but less than the CEOs of the big players - in some cases <50% of their official salary. I also struggle with the arithmetic of how her (or even the whole of senior management) taking a pay cut could offset the announced $84m cuts, much less the $254m cuts in the 2014 budget.
Personally I think many people get too much money but to stop that means changing the system that allows such privilege. But I doubt that Michelle is in that group against whom my anger is mostly directed - the richest 1%.