Is the phrase correct?

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The Singapore government has always taken pride in its strong stand against corruption, as substantiated by Singapore’s high ranking (fourth) in the global corruption survey. According to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, the high salary remunerated to Singaporean ministers helps ensure a clean and honest government as well as attract and retain local talent. Pegged to a percentage of salaries of some of the top earners in Singapore as well as the nation’s economic growth, our ministers’ salaries top the world. Our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is the highest paid head of government, more than five times the remuneration of US president Barack Obama.

The part in bold seems wrong to me. Am I right that 'salary' should be in the sentence? Could it be better phrased?

Many thanks.

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There is nothing wrong with the sentences. I suspect that most Americans would say salary rather than remuneration, but that doesn't make the sentence wrong.

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@tanguatlay,

it's fine salary is a type of remuneration

edit:are you dogging me setanta

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How the hell am i "dogging" you if you are responding after i do?

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@Setanta,

mutter

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titter

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@Setanta,

lolling about

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@oolongteasup,

Sorry for asking the question again.

Our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is the highest paid head of government, more than five times the remuneration of US president Barack Obama.

What I meant was that the sentence should read, for example, as follows:

Our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, whose remuneration is more than five times that of US president Barack Obama, is the highest paid head of government.

I think the word 'renumeration' doesn't fit correctly in the sentence.

Many thanks.

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@tanguatlay,

tanguatlay wrote:

Our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, whose remuneration is more than five times that of US president Barack Obama, is the highest paid head of government.

This is better.

I think the word 'renumeration' doesn't fit correctly in the sentence.

It fits.

Many thanks.

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@Setanta,

He hit you back first, I guess.

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@roger,

roger wrote:

He hit you back first, I guess.

Something like that . . . although tit for tat has a life of its own, it is its own justification, and it can go eternally without reference to who may be alleged to have started it.

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