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ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— Deputy of the Ministry of Finance in Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) revealed on Thursday the salary received by the region’s president, his prime minister and parliament, criticizing the “injustice” in the payroll system in force in Kurdistan region .
Rashid Taher said in a televised interview with Rudaw Kurdish satellite channel close to the Barzani’s KDP party and Kurdistan PM Nechirvan Barzani, on the decision to increase the salaries of employees by the Iraqi government as an official letter must be received by KRG, then we will abide by its implementation”.
Taher revealed how much special grades earn of monthly salaries, explaining that it begins from the third-class that include manager assistants, supervisors and advisors, then the second grade which includes managers and finally the first class that include experts , executives and legal advisors.
He noted that the special grades include two categories (a) and (b) that include general managers, consultants, vice-heads of universities, vice-governors and ministers.
Taher revealed also amount of monthly salary received by the region’s president, Massoud Barzani and Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani as well as the Speaker of Kurdistan Parliament,www.ekurd.net Arsalan Bayiz and stressed that the prime minister and the speaker of parliament are classified within the category A as their salaries begin from 2.412 million dinars for up to three million and the difference is in allocations not in the original salary.
Taher confirmed that the original salary of the President of Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani is slightly more than 3 million, indicating that the difference between the amount received by the Prime Minister with the wages of his cabinet ministers is a million and a half million dinars.
On his salary Taher said that he received when he was first appointed as a deputy for the Minister of Finance, 2.414 million dinars that increases annually.
In answer to a question about the existence of justice in the difference between the salaries of lower grades and special grades, Taher stressed that “the payroll system is not fair”.
He pointed out to a simple comparison between the amount of the wages of those with special grades with in tenth grade in nominal salary that shows the first group receiving 17 times more than wages of the second and if the comparison included allocations , the difference will be 60 times.
The Council of Ministers in the federal government has announced on Tuesday, increasing the salaries of employees by (114%) for the tenth grade down to the percentage (4%) of five grade, explaining that the increase will be applied from the start of next year, and decided to unify allocations for jobs with descriptive nature for the employees of all ministries, it confirmed that it has canceled the privileges granted to workers in the Green Zone and the three presidencies.
According to information obtained by the Kurdish magazine (Levin) in 2010, remuneration and the monthly salary of Massoud Barzani, president of the autonomous region of Kurdistan in Iraq’s north is $400,000 dollars per month.
This amount is equivalent to the salary and allowances of Barack Obama President of the USA for a full year,t because Obama is the salary ($ 33,333) dollars and only equal to ($400,000) dollars a year. The Kurdistan region budget not to exceed 8 billion dollars a year in return that the annual budget for the United States is ($14,264) trillion dollars.
While Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki salary is up to 3 million$ per year, Kurdistan president earns 4.8 million$ per year.
According to observers and analysts, the incomes of Barzanis are much higher than the officially declared, they control the oil of Kurdistan, and allegedly have huge income from the oil sector.
Massoud Barzani and his relatives control a large number of commercial enterprises in Kurdistan-Iraq, with a gross value of several billion US dollars. The family is routinely accused of corruption and nepotism by Kurdish media as well as international observers.
Iraq’s Kurdish regional government has near total autonomy and is funded by a share of the country’s oil revenue. The two parties that share power each command former guerrilla militias that have been given the status of regional security forces.
Source: Ekurd