Singapore's PM set for $1M salary boost in sweeping government pay raise

In one of the world's most deliberately engineered governance systems, Singapore has broken a fifteen-year silence on ministerial pay, granting its Prime Minister a $1 million salary increase — a 64% rise that cements his standing as the highest-paid head of government on earth. The decision reflects a long-held Singaporean philosophy that public service must compete with private ambition if it is to attract capable stewards. That the Prime Minister has pledged to donate the full increase to charity does not resolve the deeper question the raise reopens: whether the value of leadership is best