Highest paid world leader to get salary increase of $1 million

The government has for years pointed to its lack of corruption - Singapore consistently ranks near the top of Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index - as proof that the ministerial pay system works, arguing that it reduces the temptation for ministers to accept bribes.35m - by the end of the current term of government, as pay will increase based on performance.

He has said he will donate this pay increase to charity over the next five years.