对于政界要员来说，高薪真能养廉吗？新加坡总理李显龙对此深以为然。再说了，谁会抵制一年220万美金的薪水呢？日前，在CNBC发布的一份亚太地区政要收入排行榜上，李显龙摘得桂冠，他的收入是美国总统奥巴马的六倍。香港特首曾荫权的年收入是530,000美金，是国家主席胡锦涛年薪的三十倍，后者一年薪水为18,000美金。
当然并不是所有人都为了钱。韩国总统李明博年薪137,000美金，他效仿前韩国现代的CEO，用自己的薪水成立了3100万美元的个人基金，致力于帮助低收入阶层。
政要收入排行榜：
1、新加坡总理李显龙——220万美金/年；
2、香港特首曾荫权——53万美金/年；
3、澳大利亚总理茱莉亚-杰拉德——34.5万美金/年；
4、新西兰总理约翰-基——29万美金/年；
5、日本首相菅直人——27.3万美金/年；
6、台湾总统马英九——18.4万美金/年；
7、韩国总统李明博——13.7万美金/年；
8、印尼总统苏西洛·班邦·尤多约诺——12.4万美金/年。
Best paid politicians in Asia Pacific
The highest-earning politician in Asia Pacific (and the world) brings in US$2.2 million a year. Read on to see who it is。
Does a high salary keep politicians away from other extra-curricular distractions? Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong thinks so. Then again, who wouldn't defend an annual salary of US$2.2 million dollars?
Loong came top of a recent report from CNBC that ranked the highest-earning politicians in the Asia Pacific. That's six times more than U.S President Obama earns。
Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang pulls in US$530,000, 30 times Chinese President Hu Jintao's salary of US$18,000.
But not all are in it for the money。
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak makes US$137,000 annually, which he pledged to the underprivileged, having already built up a personal fortune of US$31 million as former Hyundai CEO。
The list:
1. Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister, Singapore -- US$2.2 million
2. Donald Tsang, Chief Executive, Hong Kong -- US$530,000
3. Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia -- US$345,000
4. John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand -- US$290,000
5. Naoto Kan, Prime Minister of Japan -- US$273,000
6. Ma Ying-jeou, President of Taiwan -- US$184,000
7. Lee Myung-bak, President of South Korea -- US$137,000
8. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia -- US$124,000
(CNN)