Extravagance at the Top: Dizzying Figures for Ministers' Advisors, Monthly Salaries Nearly 3,000 KM!

It is known that advisors, chiefs of staff of ministers and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina earn astronomical sums for their (non)work, but looking at all the figures and adding up just the monthly earnings of advisors always "disturbs", writes the Patria news agency.

Thus, Šemsudin Mehmedović, a deputy in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, requested that he be provided, in the shortest possible time, with an overview of appointed advisors of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, for all ministers in the Council of Ministers, members of the Joint Collegium of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with an overview of their responsibilities and a breakdown of monthly earnings by all bases.

Some have submitted the requested data, so in the Cabinet of the Minister for Human Rights and Refugees, Semiha Borovac, four advisors work: Nina Mišković, advisor and chief of staff with a salary of 2,204 KM, while Dalida Međedović earns 1,806, Kemo Sarač 1,773, and Ševket Hafizović 1,862 KM.

In the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Minister Adil Osmanović has six advisors, and his chief of staff, Muhamed Mujakić, has a net salary of 2,236 KM plus a hot meal allowance.

Ivica Šarić, advisor to the minister for education and culture, earns 1,992 KM plus a hot meal allowance; Šaban Sivić, advisor to the minister for economic affairs, has a net salary of 1,958 KM plus 700 KM for accommodation and separate living, and of course a hot meal allowance and a weekend travel card.

Damir Šišić, advisor to the minister for international relations, earns 1,806 KM plus 700 KM for separate living and accommodation, as well as a hot meal allowance and a weekend travel card.

Jovica Radulović, chief of staff of the deputy minister, earns 1,730 KM plus 700 KM for accommodation and separate living, while Nebojša Švraka, advisor to the deputy minister, earns 1,958 KM plus 700 KM for accommodation and separate living.

In the cabinet of the Minister of Finance and Treasury, Vjekoslav Bevanda, five advisors work, and chief of staff Saša Marić earns 2,140 KM, 700 KM for separate living and accommodation, 100 KM for telephone costs, and has the right to use the ministry's official vehicle 24 hours a day.

Eugen Šušak, advisor to the minister, earns 1,688 KM, 700 KM in compensation for accommodation and separate living, and 60 KM for telephone costs.

Advisor Mario Živković earns 1,688 KM and receives 300 KM as compensation for separate living, plus 60 KM for telephone costs. Jelena Brkić and Boris Raić earn 1,688 KM in salary and 760 KM for separate living, accommodation, and telephone.

In the Ministry of Communications and Transport of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the advisors to Minister Slavko Matanović are Vanja Filipović, Besim Mehmedić, Ismar Dervišević, and Vlatko Glavaš. Filipović earns 2,296, Dervišević 2,825, Mehmedić 2,023, and Glavaš 2,668 KM.

These data refer to the month of June, and in addition to these earnings, Filipović, as a member of the Project Board for the implementation of the air traffic management project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, earns an additional 461 KM, while Mehmedić, as Chairman of the BHNSA Council, is entitled to compensation of 900 KM.

In the Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Minister Dragan Mektić is advised by six people, and his deputy by three, meaning that nine people in this ministry earn enormously high salaries.

The minister is advised by Igor Golijanin (2,204 KM), Mladenka Hrkalo (1,815 KM), Mladen Vuksan (1,832 KM+700), Bojan Cvijetić (1,823 KM), Zlatko Miletić (1,916 KM), and Dušan Ostojić (2,700 KM), while his deputy is advised by Božo Antunović (1,849), Zvonimir Banović (1,840), and Ivana Veselčić (1,773 KM).