But they have instead usually been used to top off salaries of senior officials, though that is not reported to the tax authorities.

Last year, the inflation rate was unofficially pegged at 50 to 100 percent, while the salaries of public officials have remained constant.

The details of this ideal governing document are set out, from the rights of the state to the salaries of low officials.

Voters were asked whether they approved of a federal law that would lower the salaries of federal officials on a temporary basis.

Instead, they are often used to top off salaries of senior officials, though never reported to the tax authorities.

The Constitution prohibits lawmakers from raising or cutting the salaries of elected officials in their current terms.

But today the Assembly passed a bill providing for the salaries of the Governor and other statewide elected officials.

The salaries of officials in any society, wealthy or poor, can never match the profits from illegal drug trafficking.

Then there is the relationship of the President's salary to the salaries of other high officials.

That's just as well, given how salaries of elected officials have lost ground to those of sports stars over the years.