'It's a joke': Peruvians outraged after president doubles her salary

Agreed. The salary increase, all else staying the same, is a good thing.

If anything, I'm disturbed by the previous government that actually reduced the salary. You can only do that if you can afford to do it. Meaning that they are almost certainly getting more money out of the government through other, corrupt, avenues.

This is not a defense or attack on any particular politician. But you need to pay politicians a competitive salary or corruption is completely inevitable.

And with a 2 to 4% approval rating she is clearly worth the money.

OK, while in principle this looks bad…

This is (looking it up) like an experienced engineer's salary in Peru, in line with some other professions.

It’s *reasonable* to compensate a president, and for the expectation to not be coming in rich/connected enough to not need a salary. Nor for them to broker power for personal wealth, all as long as other offices and reasonably compensated too.

It avoids perverse incentives, doesn’t seem excessive and TBH is probably a drop in the Peruvian govt's budget.

What’s the point of being the big boss if you can’t set your salary? You guys are so unreasonable. /s

Off topic but it irks me when using single quotes and there's an apostrophe in the middle of it. It makes it look like the quote ends at "It".

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