World leaders’ salaries 2015

How much money do the top leaders of some of the world’s leading nations earn annually?

Here’s a list of the most recent official data (converted into US dollars at the current rate) of the yearly earnings of these world leaders.

Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister, Singapore

Salary: US $1,700,000

Barack Obama, President, USA

Salary: US $400,000

Stephen Harper, Prime Minister, Canada

Salary: US $260,000

Angela Merkel, Chancellor, Germany

Salary: US $234,400

Jacob Zuma, President, South Africa

Salary: US $223,500

David Cameron, Prime Minister, UK

Salary: US $214,800

Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister, Japan

Salary: US $202,700

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President, Turkey

Salary: US 197,400

Francois Hollande, President, France

Salary: US $194,300

Vladimir Putin, President, Russia

Salary: US $136,000

Matteo Renzi, Prime Minister, Italy

Salary: US $124,600

Dilma Rousseff, President, Brazil

Salary: US $120,000

Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, India

Salary: US $30,300

Xi Jinping, President, People’s Republic of China

Salary: US $22,000

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