Highest paid bureaucrats (country)

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).