WILLEMSTAD - Next Wednesday, Parliament will discuss two National Ordinances with regard to the salaries of Members of Parliament and ministers. In both regulations, both the members of Parliament and the ministers benefit, because they end up in the highest civil servant scale.
The Advisory Board does not agree with this, because the public finances do not allow this. In a response to questions from the media, the government said that "linking the remuneration to the highest civil servant scale is a clear and objective formula where public administration is interdependent and in balance."
If the National Ordinances are adopted, the Prime Minister will earn almost 290,000 guilders annually in 2022, compared to 244,000 guilders in 2021. The minister's salaries were estimated at 1.9 million guilders in 2021, which will then increase to more than 2.3 million guilders in 2022. To this are also the representation costs and holiday allowances.