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Thursday, April 3, 2025

PM, other officials to get salary hikes in February 2025

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GUARDIAN MEDIA NEWSROOM
49 days ago
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FILE - The sitting of Parliament 09/09/2024

FILE - The sitting of Parliament 09/09/2024

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Pub­lic of­fi­cers list­ed in the 120th Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion (SRC) re­port for salary in­creas­es, will be­gin get­ting their new salaries this month.

This in­cludes the po­si­tions for Pres­i­dent of the Re­pub­lic, Prime Min­is­ter, Op­po­si­tion Leader, Chief Jus­tice, To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary, Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ters, and Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans among many oth­ers.

The con­fir­ma­tion came through a cir­cu­lar by the Comp­trol­ler of Ac­counts is­sued on Jan­u­ary 24, 2025.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­port, the Prime Min­is­ter's salary will be $80,000 from Oc­to­ber 1, 2020, to Sep­tem­ber 30, 2023, and $87,847 from Oc­to­ber 1, 2023.

The Op­po­si­tion Leader’s salary will rise from $29,590 per month to $47,500 from Oc­to­ber 1, 2020, and then to $52,159 from Oc­to­ber 1, 2023.

The Pres­i­dent, whose cur­rent salary is $67,270, would get an in­crease to $73,920 with ef­fect from April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2023, and to $81,170 from April 1, 2023.


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