Pritam Singh questions if high pay attracts top private talent to Singapore politics

Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh has called for a more modest increase to Singapore’s ministerial salaries, challenging the argument that a higher pay was needed to attract top talent from the private sector. At Thursday’s parliamentary debate on changes to the political salary framework, Singh questioned if the city state’s high earners in the private sector were deterred from politics by lower pay or whether the issue was political responsibilities. He argued that most of the city state’s...

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Pritam Singh questions if high pay attracts top private talent to Singapore politics












Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh has called for a more modest increase to Singapore’s ministerial salaries, challenging the argument that a higher pay was needed to attract top talent from the private sector. At Thursday’s parliamentary debate on changes to the political salary framework, Singh questioned if the city state’s high earners in the private sector were deterred from politics by lower pay or whether the issue was political responsibilities. He argued that most of the city state’s...
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