Sonia Gandhi's Official Income
A MPs' salary has the following break ups in their pay slip. Monthly salary is 
50,000, adding to which are the office allowance and constituency allowance which is about 80,000 (40, 000 each) which sums up to 1.5 lakh. Additional to this, all MPs get a daily attendance allowance of 1000 for the attending the parliament which sums up to 1.5 lakh for 150 days in a year.
Calculating the above, we can estimate that that Sonia Gandhi makes an income of 20 lakh annually. But adding to this number is the perquisites. Perquisites can be defined as any casual emolument or benefit attached to an office or position in addition to salary or wages. In essence, these are usually non-cash benefits given by an employer to employees in addition to cash salary or wages which is around 15-17 lakh as stated by Times of India.
Coming to the income from NAC, it is difficult to pull up information how much each member gets in the NAC but the budget set for the committee says it all. The budget for the 2011-12 was 3.77 crore. Since this includes all expenses, including office expenses and payments made to other NAC members - and there's a whole lot of them, around a dozen - one can assume that Sonia's earnings from NAC cannot be higher than what she earns as an MP reports First Post.
50,000, adding to which are the office allowance and constituency allowance which is about 80,000 (40, 000 each) which sums up to 1.5 lakh. Additional to this, all MPs get a daily attendance allowance of 1000 for the attending the parliament which sums up to 1.5 lakh for 150 days in a year.
20 lakh annually. But adding to this number is the perquisites. Perquisites can be defined as any casual emolument or benefit attached to an office or position in addition to salary or wages. In essence, these are usually non-cash benefits given by an employer to employees in addition to cash salary or wages which is around 15-17 lakh as stated by Times of India.
Coming to the income from NAC, it is difficult to pull up information how much each member gets in the NAC but the budget set for the committee says it all. The budget for the 2011-12 was 3.77 crore. Since this includes all expenses, including office expenses and payments made to other NAC members - and there's a whole lot of them, around a dozen - one can assume that Sonia's earnings from NAC cannot be higher than what she earns as an MP reports First Post.
