Salary of Indian President v/s Global Counterparts

The Parliamentarians of Pakistan are paid a lot more than that of the Indian Ministers. The monthly salary of a Parliamentarian in the neighboring nation is 65,851. It is certainly over-and-above the pay of the Indian MPs who get paid 50,000 per month.

A Pakistani Parliamentarian’s basic salary is 27,377. Inclusion of general allowance, telephone allowance, Office maintenance and a special allowance make the total amount, 65,851.

On the other hand, the daily allowance of Indian MPs is 2,000. Rules for them are slightly different. They are allowed to travel 34 times by air with their husbands/wives. A Parliamentarian’s wife/husband can travel 8 times for free to visit them. Indian Ministers are also provided with three phones for which they are not charged with an addition of 50,000 unit of free electricity.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s salary is 1.60 lakh, whereas, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s salary is not revealed at all.

Globally, Julia Gillard, Former Prime Minister of Australia was paid higher than the U.S. President Barack Obama in 2011 when her salary was about 24,179,724 annually. Barack Obama’s salary in 2011 was 21,586,999. Afghanistan Prime Minister Hamid Karzai is paid 25,733 per month while the Russian President Vladimir Putin gets a monthly salary of 2,44,770.