How much do you get as Prime Minister, and which factors still play a role in a politician like Markus Söder?
People like to talk
about the
salaries
of top managers * very often.
But
top politicians
are also known for having a
huge amount of work to
do, and of course they are in the limelight.
Just like in the internal power struggle for the candidacy for chancellor, especially
the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU)
.
Salary: How much does a Prime Minister earn?
But how much does a Prime Minister actually receive?
The salary that a Prime Minister receives is made up of:
Base salary
Family allowance and / or local allowance
Service allowance
Overall, one speaks of the “
official salaries
”.
So several factors play a role.
The
salary tables of the federal states
specify
how much the state
bosses
get - only in Saarland there is a different regulation, as the
Stuttgarter Nachrichten reports
in its online edition.
In all federal states, the
office of the Prime Minister is assigned to the highest salary group
,
according to
StN.de
(as of January 21, 2021).
In addition, there would be surcharges to 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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What do the Prime Ministers in the individual federal states earn per month (basic salary)
?
The aforementioned report also provides information on this.
With reference to the Scientific Services of the German Bundestag (WD 3 - 3000 - 377/18), the following overview was obtained at the time:
• 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
If they are also
members of
the state parliament,
members of
the
government
also receive
compensation
, which, however, is halved.
In the end, one can only roughly estimate how much a Prime Minister earns in each individual case.
The above-mentioned family allowance, tax-free lump sums or expense allowances may be added to the calculation.
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How much does Markus Söder earn?
Even with reports on how much Markus Söder (member of the Bavarian state parliament since 1994) probably earns, it remains an estimate. According to a calculation by
Bild.de
(as of April 17, 2020), the following factors, for example, came together - according to the status about a year
ago
: As Prime Minister, his
parliamentary
allowance would be
halved to
4,222.50 euros at the time.
According to the Bavarian Salary Act,
Markus Söder,
as Prime Minister,
also
receives
the
basic salary B11
;
these were
Bild.de
(as of: April 17, 2020) According to then 14,183.84 euros, "plus surcharge 3,971.47 euros,
monthly 18,155.31 Euro (plus other benefits)
." These calculations, however, are out of date.
The currently valid base salary for grade 11, for example, can be found in the respective salary table 2021 - corresponding to each federal state.
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Sources: Bild.de; StN.de; bundestag.de
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