I just heard on the news that Spain is cutting back Public service pays & public funded Super contribution.
Australia, as we all know has an insanely huge Public Service of which by my guess only about 30 % are doing anything actual productive.
Many Public Servants I deal with contribute less to this country than most genuine handicapped.
How much should a senior ranking Public Servant be paid ? Let's hear it !

How much should anyone be paid?

Why pick on senior public servants?

Why not question the earnings of, say, TV morning show hosts, whose life is spent urging dimwits to become even dimmer?

Or sports people whose contribution to life is to show how stupid people can earn a squillion doing not-too-much?

Or real estate agents, or tax accountants, or barristers, or specialist doctors?

Why should any of them earn a million $$$ a year.

Why are CEOs of major public companies not the target of your enquiry?

Do they contribute anything worthwhile to the world?

Did the BP chief save us from oil pollution in the Gulf?

Very few of us are engaged in 'worthwhile' activities.... but what is a 'worthwhile' activity anyway?

Why does my garbo earn less than my doctor when both are engaged in vital public health matters?

Why do journalists on commercial TV and tabloid papers get paid at all?

Shouldn't MPs be forced to pay to work for us?

If you are an 'individual', as you hint at, I doubt you'd last too long on your own, without a public sector to subsidise whatever you do in life.

TBC: << Why pick on senior public servants? >>

Because individual has an obsessive hatred for public servants. My guess is that's because he works under their direction.

Most free enterprise systems work on the principle of supply and demand, so salaries tend to equate with that principle. Unfortunately the public service is not always controlled by the same probity.

Blue Cross,
seeing that you "don't get it" I'll explain. TV hosts etc. get paid largely by private enterprise. Public Servants like CJ morgan just make silly-nasty remarks & don't appear to contribute anything unless it's opportunistic denial of reality.
Blue Cross, do you think it fair that someone who always has to "get approval from above" to cost us taxpayers up to 1/2 million $ a year ? The cop & ambo who put their life on the line get a fraction of what the Dr & Jugde receive.
The hospital cleaner gets nothing in comparison to the funding to artists who aren't good enough to sell their work. The list is long, nearly as long as CJ Morgans bandwagon.

individual, I'm not a public servant and never have been. As I recall, you're paid by the taxpayer.

If you're so resentful that your superiors get paid more than you do, why don't you go and work in private enterprise? Shouldn't you be working right now, instead of griping about your bosses on the Internet?