Prime Minister Hun Sen, ministers, secretaries of state and 2,500 other civil servants and political figures will receive substantial pay rises after the Council of Ministers approved a draft of the 2017 Draft Law on Financial Management on Friday. During the cabinet meeting, Mr. Hun Sen said the government’s improved ability to collect taxes would cover the costs of the new national budget, which has increased by almost $1 billion over this year’s $4.27 billion figure.
 

“The government has the ability to collect revenue to support the operations of the government. Now we have money we can raise salaries for civil servants,” he told the assembled ministers. He said his own salary, now 3.6 million riel (about $900) a month, would almost treble to 10 million (about $2,500). Ministers will now receive 4.5 million riel ($1,115), secretaries of state 3.5 million (about $850), undersecretaries of state 2.8 million ($700) and some 2,500 assistants and advisers will receive an extra 80,000 riel ($20) a month.
 

The six-chapter long draft budget proposal, which now needs to be approved by the ruling party-dominated National Assembly, is just under $5 billion, an almost 16 percent increase. According to a statement released on Friday, the budget increases are largely to cover the rise in salaries, not just for senior government figures, but also civil servants across the country.

 

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Edited October 25, 20169 yr by Dap
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