These Are The 20 Highest Paid World Leaders

Édouard Philippe, Prime Minister of France: $220,505 Jimmy Morales, President of the Republic of Guatemala: $227,099 Leo Varadkar, Taoiseach of Ireland: $234,447 Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland: $242,619 Stefan Löfven, Prime Minister of Sweden: $244,615 Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark: $249,774 Adrian Hasler, Prime Minister of the Principality of Liechtenstein: $254,660 Charles Michel, Prime Minister of Belgium: $262,964 Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada: $267,041 Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa: $273,470 Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg: $278,035 Sebastian Kurz, Chancellor of Austria: $328,584 Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of Mauritania: $330,000 Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand: $339,862 Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany: $369,727 Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia: $378,415 Donald Trump, President of the United States: $400,000 Ueli Maurer, President of the Swiss Confederation: $482,958 Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of Hong Kong: $568,400 Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore: $1,610,000 You might be forgiven for wondering, after taking a look at the above list, “why Singapore?” There is probably a host of reasons why Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (pictured with President Trump above) is the highest-paid world leader on Earth, but some have made the argument that his big salary is in one way a benefit to the citizens of Singapore, as according to the Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, Singapore ranks as possibly the least corrupt country in the world. It might also be pointed out that Singapore has the highest cost of living in the world, too.