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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 09:00

It's a pretty straightforward question, asked as of September 3, 2008–maybe one of them is out of the poorhouse at this point!

I suspect you guessed that it is the Irish Taoiseach.  An Taoiseach earns a salary of €310,000 or about $450,000.  As of the end of 2008, the President of the United States earns $400,000; the British prime minister earns around $240,000.  It looks like Taoisigh earn more than US Presidents!

Part of the difference with the US President can be attributed to the decline in the value of the dollar against the Euro.   However, when measured against other heads of government, including those in Europe, the Taoiseach is the highest paid head of government in the OECD, an organization of thirty of the wealthiest nations on the planet.