Hungary first!
Translation:
- Title: The salary of Viktor Orbán is the highest in the European Union, if we compare it to the gross average salary of the country’s population
- Left column: Yearly gross salary of the head of government in Euro
- Right column: As a proportion of average annual gross salary
- Middle column is the list of head if governments, their respective country is in parenthesis.
- Footer: Source: Wikipedia, Eurostat, research by Átlátszó
How to read country names in Hungarian: Remove the accents, replace SZ with S, remove ország from the end (it means country) and usually you get something similar to English or the native name of the country.
“Irregular” ones:
- Görögország - Greece
- Lengyelország - Poland
- Olaszország - Italy
- Németország - Germany
Infographic is from the Hungarian NGO newspaper/think tank, Atlatszo.hu (Átlátszó means transparent in Hungarian)
You can try to read the full article in English with google translate (afaik deepl doesn’t have a feature like this): https://atlatszo-hu.translate.goog/adat/2024/07/19/az-eu-s-kormanyfok-kozul-orban-fizetese-a-legmagasabb-az-atlagberhez-kepest/?_x_tr_sl=hu&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=hu&_x_tr_pto=wapp
with these positions i would be more concerned with their under-the-table earnings than their salaries
Yeah to be honest, the biggest takeaway for me is that many of these are crazy low relative to the power they have…
If you underpay public servants, you either end up with terrible public servants, those who are good at finding ‘other’ sources of income, or both.
Enter Germany, earn shit tons of money as a politician and still be corrupt.
The salaries for politicians in high positions are somewhat warranted. It’s an insanely stressful and taxing job. If they were just doing their jobs that is. All the Lobby money is just disgusting and disgraceful.
I earn more than Donald Tusk. That’s interesting.
Flex
Otoh, I’d assume Donald Tusk can easily save on a lot of expenses normal people have, like food, going out, attending Nato summits etc.
