Ministry of Finance Director of Wages Ilan Levin today submitted the government service salary report for 2007. This is his first salary report. The report outlines the salary cost of Israel's 143,000 government employees, including 57,000 civil servants at ministries and government hospitals, and 87,000 teachers.
In the best tradition, the heads of government hospitals again topped the salaries of ministry director generals. The top-paid government employees do not, once again, work in healthcare, but in the judiciary: Ministry of Justice ombudsman for public complaints against judges Supreme Court Judge Emeritus Tova Strassberg-Cohen earned a gross monthly salary of NIS 62,674 in 2007, and her salary cost was NIS 79,833.
The average wage of Defense Ministry employees was NIS 17,635, while workers in education earned about half that, NIS 8,522 per month.
Ministry of Defense Israel Space Agency director Prof. Haim Eshed was in second place, with a gross monthly salary of NIS 61,779.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on January 20, 2009
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