New Zealand MPs to receive payrise
{{date|November 30, 2006}}
{{New Zealand}} 
[[w:New Zealand|New Zealand]] [[w:Members of Parliament|Members of Parliament]] will receive thousands more after getting pay increases today. 

The pay rises for backbench MPs are between 3.8% and 4.1% which will mean a backbench MP will now earn around [[w:NZ$|NZ$]]122,500. The pay rises are to counter inflation next year of about 2.5% which will result in MPs receiving more money. Other MPs with senior positions will get rises of between 4% and 8.1%.

This year the Prime Minister's increase will be worth just over $14,000 - paying her $6,942 a week. Helen Clark, PM of New Zealand, received a 9.4 per cent rise last year, increasing her salary by nearly $30,000 to $347,000. The latest increase will see her salary rise to about $361,000.

National's multimillionaire John Key has already secured a significant pay rise this week with his election to the leader's job and is on $216,000.
 
The pay rise will be backdated to July 1, The New Zealand Herald reported today.
 
Mr Key told ''The New Zealand Herald'' that he would donate a significant amount of his pay check to charitable organisations, as he has done since he first became an MP.
  
Last year backbenchers got a 4.1% increase in their pay.

Judges are also going to expect a pay rise next year of about 5%.

== Sources ==
*{{source|url=http://subs.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10413135
|title=PM gets pay rise for Christmas
|author=Ruth Berry
|pub=New Zealand Herald
|date=November 30, 2006}}
*{{source|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/print/0,1478,3883423a11,00.html|title=MPs get 4.1 pc pay rise|author=NZPA|pub=stuff|date=November 30, 2006}}

{{publish}}

{{archived}}
[[Category:New Zealand]]
[[Category:Oceania]]
[[Category:Politics and conflicts]]
New Zealand Members of Parliament will receive thousands more after getting pay increases today. 

The pay rises for backbench MPs are between 3.8% and 4.1% which will mean a backbench MP will now earn around NZ$122,500. The pay rises are to counter inflation next year of about 2.5% which will result in MPs receiving more money. Other MPs with senior positions will get rises of between 4% and 8.1%.

This year the Prime Minister's increase will be worth just over $14,000 - paying her $6,942 a week. Helen Clark, PM of New Zealand, received a 9.4 per cent rise last year, increasing her salary by nearly $30,000 to $347,000. The latest increase will see her salary rise to about $361,000.

National's multimillionaire John Key has already secured a significant pay rise this week with his election to the leader's job and is on $216,000.
 
The pay rise will be backdated to July 1, The New Zealand Herald reported today.
 
Mr Key told The New Zealand Herald that he would donate a significant amount of his pay check to charitable organisations, as he has done since he first became an MP.
  
Last year backbenchers got a 4.1% increase in their pay.

Judges are also going to expect a pay rise next year of about 5%.
New Zealand Oceania Politics and conflicts