The Remuneration Authority has announced its determination on what MPs’ salaries should be.
The recommendation is for a 2.8% increase for most which, given MPs’ salaries have been frozen since 2017, is not large.
It has however, attracted the usual criticism of MPs and their worth.
The best MPs are underpaid for the work they do and the worst are overpaid.
Some serve electorates covering vast areas, some have small electorates and some list MPs don’t do much at electorate level at all.
Some take a pay cut to serve as an MP, some get paid far more as MPs than they would before they entered parliament and will every earn again.
Elections sort out some of the performers from the slackers, but not all. Some good MPs are voted out and some cling on to safe seats or list places.
Salaries can’t distinguish between the better and the worse but David Farrar has a suggestion of how salaries could be set that might stop complaints that any increase is too much.
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