Amid budget crisis, Germany’s left-wing government gives themselves massive salary increases

 

Despite massive holes in the German budget that have led to cuts in public services and targeted farmers with tax increases, the German government just gave themselves huge raises and increased the salaries of the country’s expanding civil servant class. In fact, they are the largest increase in decades and will cost the German taxpayer an extra €979 million a year.

 

Government officials will start raking in higher salaries in March, where the country’s president, for example, will see his monthly salary increase to €23,003 from €21,625 a month, representing an increase of 6.37 percent. Olaf Scholz can also look forward to a raise, with his salary rising to €22,083 from €20,702.

 

 

 

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