Recommended salaries for politicians per year. The Premier, Deputy Premier and Finance Minister, and other Cabinet Ministers' pay is added to their pay as an MP or Senator. The total is shown in brackets:

Premier - $150,000 ($200,000).

Finance Minister - $120,000 full-time ($170,000).

Deputy Premier - $112,000 full-time ($162,000)*.

Full-time Cabinet Minister - $100,000 ($150,000)

Part-time Cabinet Minister - $50,000 ($100,000)

MP - $50,000

Senator - over $26,287. (Salary increase to be linked to the annual rate of inflation)

*Where the Deputy Premier is also the Finance Minister, the Finance Minister's salary would apply.)