Highest paid bureaucrats (country)

- Who
- Italy
- What
- 650000 US dollar(s)
- Where
- Italy
- When
- 28 July 2014
According to the 2012 OECD Survey on Compensation of Employees in Central/Federal Governments, top public officials in Italy are the best paid in the world, bringing in nearly $650,000 at purchasing power parity rates that compare how much the US dollar would buy in each country. Strangely, for a country long associated with economic stagnation and political instability, civil servants in Italy are better paid than those in the next two countries, which are by-words for good governance, peace and security: New Zealand (whose top civil servants bring home £397,000) and Australia (where they earn an average of $382,000). Perhaps the two variables are inversely related.
The next two nations are the UK (at $348,000) and Belgium (at $320,000).