PM Wong, Chan Chun Sing to deliver ministerial statements on government’s response to political office holders’ salary review

The salary framework covers the pay of all political appointment holders as well as MPs and NMPs.

In May, Mr Chan said that the committee had completed its work, but the government had decided to defer consideration of its recommendations due to the uncertainty caused by the Middle East conflict. 

The government will release the committee’s report together with its response at an appropriate time, he said then. 

The salary framework and political salaries have not been adjusted since they took effect in May 2011. 

The current salary framework was established by a review committee in 2012, with the government agreeing with its recommendation that the framework would be reviewed by an independent committee every five years.

A subsequent committee was formed in 2017 to review the 2012 framework. It found that the framework remained sound, and that political salaries should be adjusted annually in line with the movement of the benchmark salaries.

Nevertheless, the government decided not to make any changes to political salaries then.

In 2023, the government decided to defer the scheduled review given the uncertain external environment, and the downside risks in the global economy at that time.