Stephen Harper is 6th highest paid world leader: study

it is not the salary that these people get that bothers me - it is the pension. As I understand it they serve 6 years and are entitled to a full pension of something over $60,000 per year.

I have no problem with their salaries but qualifying for a pension after only 6 years or equiverlent to 3 years working time in the house as to stop,shouldn't it be the same as everybody else and be after 30-35 years.This government seems very keen on taking everyones pension from them.

Politicians are paid plenty. They are not compensated for growing a company and increasing profit. They are cost centres - not profit centres. Look at people who work in cost centres. They don't make as much as those in profit centres. Imagine million dollar salaries for our politicians???? What if executives didn't move into that field? We would still be paying the same old blow hards a lot more money to do what for us??? Raise taxes.

It's not the salary of the PM that bothers me, it how many salaries we are paying for those 302 representatives that is going to baloon up to 332 soon: Do we really need that many people to run this country? I don't think so; especially knowing that most of them who aren't part of the cabinet do just about nothing to earn their salary.

It's not the PM's salary that gets to me, it's the salaries and expense accounts of senate members. They're appointed for life and only have to show up in the House one week out of a whole year to qualify for the over $80,000 a year they get, plus the expense account. Then they get a permanent pension when they finally retire - all on OUR DIME!

I dont mind the salery so much as the pensions, when our elected people only work a few years and start thier pensions as soon as they get kicked out and colect for the rest of thier lives.

beside the salary what other perks does he not have to pay for....housing, travel,cars,clothing, entertainment.

I just about choked when I read that the average salary in Canada in 2010 was $42,988. That may not be a bad wage for a single person, but married with kids......poor house!!!

Cut CEO salaries!

So the article states;;if u hire only the top CEOs to run the country we will have no problems only utopia???????

Strange this article says other salaries are not available, yet yesterday there was an article discussing those exact ones.

There is an Indian chief in Manitoba making $400,000/yr and he's crying that he needs more money for his reservation. Harper making just under $300,000/yr as the CEO of Canada with infinately more responsibilities-why would you want the Prime Minister's job in the 1st place- something is wrong with this picture

his big paydays will come when he leaves politics

our government are just a bunch of crooks in suits. They get huge annual salaries but still spend our tax money for their own purposes..

I don't mind the pay , but all government emploee should pay taxes like everybody else .

Considering he has none of the "usual" bills we all pay...ie rent, hydro, cable, phone, food transportation, insurance, hes doing very well. In perspective...Are We the 6th richest country in the world? Is it comparative?

just looks like another example of rigging the system to benefit the few and wealthy. 6 yrs of being a pm for 300k US$ a yr and then he can retire on 60k a yr after?!?! I work 5-6 days a week on night shift mostly, but must be flexible for anything. I go out of country 3 weeks at a time up to 4 times a year and barely make over 50k a year. My job is very stressful, I work in confined spaces, building rooftops or ceilings.. I do a lot of phyical labour, I stand on or inside equipment that is extremely hot. I get very dirty, exposed to chemicals etc etc.. I think he deserves half that salary he is getting right now, even less. This job isn't suppose to be a quick cash grab for little "work" like it literally is set up to be right now.

I don't think so. He has a tough job, a stressful one. The ones making too much money are the corporate CEO's raking in 6mil+/yr. They probably don't even do much for the money, they probably delegate everything so they can spend their time on "business trips" and gold courses.

Putting up with death wishing twisted fools like many of you on here tells me he should be paid twice as much as he's making now.

I'd like to see any one of you Harper-haters do half the job he does for 10 times the salary. All yer good at is pissin' 'n moanin'!

Most of you probably can't manage a personal chequing account because the only money a Liberal is good at spending is someone else's! Geez, you'd think the Devil himself wuz runnin' the place, what with all the whinin' 'n cryin' goin' on!

Unfortunately, the Devil didn't die when Trudeau did, but he was the closest thing to Beelzebub we ever had for a leader. Hell, we're still paying for his cockeyed scemes and the country will never be able to reach it's former glory as a true free nation because of him.

That's why we gotta pay someone like Harper to try to straighten out as much as he can before the GLBT's and the rest of the special interests finally pry it out of our cold dead hands!

Go join the Occupy Party and work for nothing. See how many Canadians will take you seriously. Sometimes 'free' isn't always a bargain. In our case, you get what you pay for and I happen to think Stephen is a bargain right now compared to what our alternatives were at the last election.

If you don't like it, tough tit, go live in one of those other banana republics where the el Presidente makes less. You'll get yer money's worth thete, I am sure!