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Justin Trudeau: $245,000
The Liberal leader earns $160,200 in base salary as a federal MP, and an additional stipend of $54,000 for heading up the third party, bringing his total bill for taxpayers to $214,700—about $22,000 a year less than a cabinet minister. But the 41-year-old has other sources of income. His late father, Pierre, left him an inheritance that was worth $1.2 million in the summer of 2011, according to documents Justin made public during his own leadership run that pays him as much as $20,000 a year in dividends. And then there’s an additional $10,000 or so in income in royalties from the former prime minister’s books and the use of his image. Not so many years ago, the new Liberal leader earned $44,000 a year as a private school teacher in Vancouver. Then, as his fame grew, he tapped into the lucrative rubber chicken circuit, and by 2007 was earning $462,000 a year as a paid speaker. Those engagements tapered off? after he was elected to Parliament in 2008, and in 2012 he accepted just four for-profit speeches, making $72,000. But these days all his talks are free. After the Tories started smearing him with his own disclosures this spring, Trudeau announced that he will no longer accept payment for speeches. (Photo by Peter Bregg)
Read more from the Maclean’s Who Earns What issue here.