WHAT’S THIS ALL ABOUT?

PoliticalSalaries.com compiles data about the base salaries of politicians around the world.

The site was created to:

• improve the transparency of political salaries
• help people to find out how much their politicians are paid
• enable a comparison of political salaries across the globe.

The site was created in 2022 based on data from the most reliable sources available for each respective country.

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Who created this site?

This site was created by William Summers, a professional fact-check journalist and open data advocate based in Melbourne, Australia (find me on Twitter here).

Several years ago I compiled my own dataset of political salaries but never put it to much good use. At some point, I bought this domain name with the intention of making that data public. Then at some later point, I found time to actually do it!

This is a personal hobby project. PoliticalSalaries.com has no association with my employer (Australian Associated Press) or any other organisation.

If you find this website useful, please consider throwing a few dollars into our Tip Jar to help pay our web hosting fees.

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Can I reuse the data?

PoliticalSalaries.com is an open data project.

The salary data comes from public sources. Sources are included in the data tables.

I encourage re-use of the information for research, academic, media and other purposes in line with Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license rules.

In simple terms, that means salary maps and data tables from this website may be republished in full at no charge for non-commercial purposes, with appropriate attribution to PoliticalSalaries.com (e.g. ‘Source: PoliticalSalaries.com’).

If you wish to republish the salary maps or data tables for commercial purposes – including news media – please contact me first to request permission.

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