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In my country (the Netherlands) there is a norm that says "No government employee shall earn more than the prime minister". The idea being to prevent certain he
by rocqua 5y ago
In my country (the Netherlands) there is a norm that says "No government employee shall earn more than the prime minister". The idea being to prevent certain heads of departments from setting their own pay to high.
This has had a side-effect of some actually qualified technical people from leaving because of salary.
- bradleyjg 5y agoThe US federal government is similar. The President makes $400k, cabinet secretaries $225k, and everyone else less than that. There are a very few exceptions—-some doctors for example.