{"id":236193,"date":"2026-09-10T08:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/singapore-pm-increases-his-salary-by-1-1-million-amid-first-government-pay-raise-in-15-years\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:49:04","slug":"singapore-pm-increases-his-salary-by-1-1-million-amid-first-government-pay-raise-in-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/singapore-pm-increases-his-salary-by-1-1-million-amid-first-government-pay-raise-in-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore PM increases his salary by $1.1 million amid first government pay raise in 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced the salary increases in parliament on Tuesday, the first for ministers in 15 years. Wong&#8217;s own benchmark paycheck is set to rise 64 percent to 3.6 million Singapore dollars (\u20ac2.4 million) a year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/10\/singapore-pm-increases-his-salary-by-11-million-amid-first-government-pay-raise-in-15-year\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced the salary increases in parliament on Tuesday, the first for ministers in 15 years. Wong&#8217;s own benchmark paycheck is set to rise 64 percent to 3.6 million Singapore dollars (\u20ac2.4 million) a year. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":236194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}