About this site
WHAT’S THIS ALL ABOUT?
PoliticalSalaries.com is a not-for-profit open data project that collects and compares the salaries of politicians around the world.
The site was created in 2022 to:
- improve the transparency of politics and political salaries
- help people to find out how much their politicians are paid
- enable a comparison of political salaries across the globe.
Politicalsalaries.com uses data from the most reliable sources available and is updated regularly.
Who created this site?
This site was created by William Summers, a journalist in Melbourne, Australia.
It is not associated with any other person or organisation.
The website generates a small amount of advertising revenue, which goes directly towards web hosting fees. It has no other funding sources.
Want to know more about the origins of this website? Read this blog post.
Can I reuse the data?
PoliticalSalaries.com is a not-for-profit open data project.
The salary data comes from public sources. Sources are included in the data tables.
I encourage the re-use of the information for research, academic, media and other purposes, in accordance with Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license rules.
Simply put, that means data from this website may be republished for free for non-commercial and news reporting purposes, with appropriate attribution to PoliticalSalaries.com (e.g. ‘Source: PoliticalSalaries.com’).
Please be a good internet citizen by linking back to this site whenever you reuse its data.
If you wish to republish any part of this website for commercial purposes please contact me first to request permission.
The individual data points are taken from public sources but the compilation of that data into tables and maps is subject to copyright laws. The author of this website retains copyright over the compiled data and the salary maps.