Watch: Cassola Warns Minister’s Wife Earned Even More Than Prime Minister
Independent politician Arnold Cassola has flagged how Clayton Bartolo’s wife Amanda Muscat Bartolo stood to earn more than the Prime Minister in her consultancy role.
Cassola, whose report triggered a Standards Commissioner investigation, was interviewed on Andrew Azzopardi’s RTK show and gave a breakdown of public sector salaries.
“A cleaner on scale 20 earns €12,300, a health care worker on scale 15 earns €18,450, a midwife on scale 10 earns €25,822, a police superintendent on scale 5 earns €35,525, a principal permanent secretary on scale 1 earns €49,295,” he noted. “Meanwhile, Clayton Bartolo’s girlfriend earned €68,000 for a phantom job that she didn’t work.”
“She overtook every single Maltese public sector salary scale, including the Prime Minister (a salary of €63,000). We might as well just appoint her Prime Minister at this stage, with a salary like that.”
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