Hardly any politician is currently in the limelight like Armin Laschet.
As Prime Minister he brings a lot of political experience to the table.
What can you earn in this position?
With
Armin Laschet
(CDU) and Markus Söder (CSU), two competing Prime Ministers are currently in the spotlight.
A lot is at stake for CDU chairman Laschet.
Last but not least, he can refer to his political successes and his many years of experience as
Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
.
But how much do you actually earn as a Prime Minister?
Salary: How much does a Prime Minister earn?
You have to know that the salary that a Prime Minister receives is made up of various components:
Base salary
Family allowance and / or local allowance
Service allowance
In sum, one speaks of the “
official remuneration
”, as it says in a report by the Stuttgarter Nachrichten on
StN.de
about the background.
How much the state bosses get is
stipulated
in the
salary table of the federal states
- only in Saarland there is a different regulation, as the portal explains (as of January 21, 2021).
In all federal states, the office of the Prime Minister is assigned to the highest salary group.
“In addition, there are surcharges on the salary, which each federal state determines individually.
It is between 4.8 percent in Schleswig-Holstein and
33.3 percent in North Rhine-Westphalia
. "
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This is what the minister-presidents in the individual federal states earn per month (basic salary)
according to the above-mentioned report with reference to the scientific services of the German Bundestag (WD 3 - 3000 - 377/18):
• Bremen: 13,022 euros
• Schleswig-Holstein: 13,780 euros
• Rhineland-Palatinate: 14,197 euros
• Brandenburg: 14,264 euros
• Saxony-Anhalt: 14,635 euros
• Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: 14,926 euros
• Hesse: 15,267 euros
• Berlin: 15,453 euros
• Saarland: 15,573 euros
• Thuringia: 15,603 euros
• Hamburg: 15,993 euros
• Lower Saxony: 16,180 euros
• Baden-Württemberg: 16,489 euros
• Saxony: 16,565 euros
• Bavaria: 17,046 euros
• North Rhine-Westphalia: 17,658 euros
How much does Armin Laschet earn as Prime Minister?
As
Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
, Armin Laschet is ahead in a nationwide comparison, according to these figures. In the end, however, one can only roughly estimate how much a Prime Minister earns in each individual case. The currently valid basic salary for salary group 11 can be found in the respective salary table - corresponding to each federal state. In the calculation, however, the family allowance mentioned, tax-free lump sums or expense allowances, for example, may also be added. Armin Laschet has been Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia since June 27, 2017. As
Focus Online
speculated in a report (as of April 20, 2021), his income as Prime Minister amounts to "around 18,200 euros per month (basic salary without subsidies)."
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What happens when someone leaves office?
It gets complicated, as it says in the report of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten on
StN.de
in general with a view to the federal states,
when a member of the government leaves office
.
“Then the country pays transitional allowances for between six and 24 months.
If a member of the government has been there for at least five years and is 62 years old, a pension is paid. "
If the term of office has lasted longer, the minimum age will decrease, the report says.
“Anyone who has been State Secretary, Minister or Prime Minister for more than eight years only needs to be 57 years old to receive a pension.
This in turn is based on the length of the term of office - between 38.27 percent and a maximum of 71.75 percent of the pensionable office
salary is paid.
”
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Sources: StN.de; praxistipps.focus.de; bundestag.de
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