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China civil servants get first pay hike since 2006

Published Tue, Jan 20, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Beijing

CHINA'S leaders just awarded all civil servants their first pay increase since 2006, with President Xi Jinping seeing his monthly salary rise to 11,385 yuan (S$2,451), the official China Daily reported on Tuesday.

That translates into a yearly wage of US$21,984 compared with US$400,000 for US President Barack Obama.

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