Many people around the world has been asking questions about the highest paid president in the world. Yes, we all know that there is Salary for every country leader which is most times regarded as president. So in this post, we will be looking at the highest paid presidents in the world but will be limited to only top 10.
After we made a post about the highest paid presidents in Africa and how much they receive as their monthly salary, many of our readers also requested we also write about the highest paid president in the world. But this time around, no African country made our list of the top 10 highest paid presidents in 2024.
For me to say, A President of a country is supposed to be the highest paid person in each country. But the truth is that this is not applied in many country. Some individuals in some countries earn more money more than their president. Presidents sometimes only depends on how much they are paid and not other means. So in this list, we are only talking about the basic salary of the president that made the list of the highest paid presidents in the world.
Please note that there are some of your favorite countries that are rich and you will be expecting their presidents to earn a huge amount of money, the truth is that, they may not make this list because most those countries don’t pay their presidents that much as they sometimes reduce their salaries and use others for the development of their countries. Now let’s look at the highest paid presidents in the world and how much they are paid.
Before we talk about the top 10 highest paid presidents, let’s first look at the highest paid president in the world.
Highest Paid President In The World 2024.
The highest paid president in the world currently is the President of Singapore with the annual salary of $1,610,000. The president of Singapore has been keeping the record of the highest paid president in the world for some time now and still maintains the position as at 2024.
Now we have talked about the highest paid, let’s now see the other countries that follows.
Top 10 Highest Paid Presidents In The World 2024
- Lee Hsien Loong – Prime Minister of Singapore | Annual salary: $1,610,000.
- John Lee Ka-chiu – Chief Executive of Hong Kong | Annual salary: $568,400.
- Viola Amherd – President of the Swiss Confederation | Annual salary: $482,958.
- Joe Biden – President of the United States | Annual salary: $400,000.
- Anthony Albanese – Prime Minister of Australia | Annual salary: $378,415.
- Olaf Scholz – Chancellor of Germany | Annual salary: $369,727.
- Christopher Luxon – Prime Minister of New Zealand | Annual salary: $339,862.
- Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz- President of Mauritania | Annual salary: $330,000.
- Karl Nehammer – Former Chancellor of Austria | Annual salary: $328,584.
- Luc Frieden – Prime Minister of Luxembourg | Annual salary: $278,035.
The list above is currently the top 10 highest paid presidents in the world at the moment. Please note that this list is made according to our research and note that it can be updated at any moment if there is any update about their annual salaries.