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Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner: "Against every envy debate"
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Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) calls for a voluntary salary cap for top staff in public broadcasting.
"At the top of the public service, the money is sometimes enormous," said Lindner of the "Bild am Sonntag".
»I'm against any debate about envy, but no director should earn more than the Federal Chancellor.
A self-commitment is necessary here in order to be economical with the money of the fee payers.«
According to the report, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) currently earns around 362,000 euros (Chancellor’s salary plus parliamentary allowance).
WDR director Tom Buhrow (413,000 euros) and ZDF director Norbert Himmler (372,000 euros) get more.
Lindner also considers a reform of the number of managerial and executive employees in the stations to be necessary: "Overall, the executive floors and administrations should be leaner in order to pay the editors who make the content appropriately instead," said the finance minister of the newspaper.
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