Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1895 — Salaries of the World's Rulers. [ARTICLE]

Salaries of the World's Rulers.

The President of the United States receives a salary of $50,000 and a house; the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary gets $3,875,000, besides several palaces; the King of Italy gets $2,858,000; the King of Prussia gets $3,852,770, but nothing as Emperor of Germany; the Czar has an income of $12,000,000, out of which he supports the grand dukes and the court; the King of Spain gets $1,400,000; the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, $2,175,000; the President of France gets $120,000, and a like sum for entertainments; the President of Mexico gets $50,000; the Emperor of Japan gets $3,000,000; and no one knows what the Emperor of China gets. The King of Greece gets $260,000, and the President of the Swiss Confederation has a salary of $3,000. This last named ruler Is the only one who does not receive the use of a house.